What does sweetcorn mean?
Word: Sweetcorn
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Sweetcorn means the sweet yellow seeds of a kind of maize plant, eaten as a vegetable.
How do you spell sweetcorn?
Syllables: sweet - corn
Tricky part: In British English sweetcorn is one word, with no space or hyphen. The first part is the taste word sweet with ee; sweat with ea is something quite different.
Watch out for: sweatcorn, swetcorn
Memory tip: Sweetcorn tastes sweet, and the word begins with that same sweet, then runs straight on with no gap.
Sweetcorn in a sentence
Example 1: We ate roasted sweetcorn with lemon and salt at the beach.
Example 2: Nani added sweetcorn to the vegetable soup.
Example 3: The sweetcorn was juicy and soft.
Fun Fact
In North American English, sweetcorn is usually just called corn.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:
sweet________
a) corne
b) corn
c) korn
d) coren
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b) corn. Corn, the plant whose grains we eat, is spelt c, o, r, n.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
sweetcorn
a) sore
b) tower
c) storm
d) crown
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c) storm. Storm needs an m, and you will not find one in sweetcorn.
Spell Spies
Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:
Ma bought two cups of sweetcorn from a stall near the bus stop, and we ate it on the way hom.
a) only hom
b) sweetcorn and hom
c) only stall
d) stall and cups
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a) only hom. Home ends in a silent e; sweetcorn itself is right.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a food?
a) tocenwsr
b) tocenwsar
c) tocenwser
d) tocenwsere
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c) tocenwser. Tocenwser matches sweetcorn letter for letter; the others swap, drop or add one.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Before you cook a whole cob of sweetcorn, what do you peel off?
a) the green leaves
b) the thin wax
c) the hard shell
d) the brown bark
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a) the green leaves
2. Sweetcorn grains grow on a ___.
a) pod
b) pip
c) bulb
d) cob
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d) cob
