What does sprinkle mean?
Word: Sprinkle
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Sprinkle means to drop small bits of something, such as sugar or salt, or tiny drops of liquid over a surface.
How do you spell sprinkle?
Syllables: sprin - kle
Tricky part: The ending sounds like 'kul', but after the k it is spelt with the letters le, and the e is easy to forget.
Watch out for: sprinkel, sprinkal
Memory tip: Sprinkle Kindly, Lightly, Evenly: the opening letters of those three words, k, l and e, are how the word ends.
Sprinkle in a sentence
Example 1: Mum sprinkles grated coconut over the poha.
Example 2: Please sprinkle a little salt on the cucumber slices.
Example 3: The gardener sprinkled seeds along the edge of the flower bed.
Fun Fact
The tiny coloured sugar strands put on cakes are often called sprinkles, while in British English the tiny sugar balls are known as hundreds and thousands.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
s_r_nkle
a) p, e
b) b, i
c) t, a
d) p, i
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d) p, i. Say it slowly: a p follows the s, and the vowel is a short i as in pin.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
knilpres
a) srpinkle
b) sprinkle
c) spirnkle
d) sprnikle
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b) sprinkle. Every option ends the same way, so look closely at the order of the letters before the k.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: sprinkle
a) squeeze
b) scatter
c) gather
d) fold
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b) scatter. To scatter is to throw small things lightly over an area, just as you sprinkle seeds.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) delicous
b) decerate
c) sprinkle
d) ingrediant
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c) sprinkle. Ingredient ends in ent, delicious has an i before its ous, and decorate has an o after the c.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Dad sprinkles water on the plants. How does the water reach them?
a) from a bucket tipped over the pot
b) in light drops over the leaves
c) through a thin pipe under the soil
d) in one heavy stream at the roots
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b) in light drops over the leaves
2. The baker added a sprinkle of sugar to the top of the cake. How much sugar went on?
a) a thick layer
b) a full bag
c) just a little
d) none at all
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c) just a little
