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Spell Bee Word: Teaspoon


What does teaspoon mean?

Word: Teaspoon

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Teaspoon means a small spoon used for stirring tea or eating, and also a measure used in cooking.

How do you spell teaspoon?

Syllables: tea - spoon

Tricky part: It is tea + spoon joined with no space. Students often spell the tea part by its sound and write tee or ti.

Watch out for: teespoon, tispoon, teaspoone

Memory tip: Just say what it does: it is the spoon for your tea. Write tea, then spoon.

Teaspoon in a sentence

Example 1: Add a teaspoon of honey to the warm water.

Example 2: The baby dropped her teaspoon on the floor.

Example 3: Mix half a teaspoon of turmeric into the stew.

Fun Fact

The word teaspoon is first recorded in the 1680s, soon after tea drinking became fashionable in Britain.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) teaspoon
b) sunflowar
c) handkerchef
d) cupbord

Show answer

a) teaspoon. Cupboard keeps the a of board, sunflower ends in er and handkerchief has ie; teaspoon is the one spelt right.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

steponoa

a) seasoning
b) tablespoon
c) teaspoon
d) spoonful

Show answer

c) teaspoon. Tablespoon needs a b and an l, spoonful an f and seasoning a g, so the letters can only make teaspoon.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Grandma stirred a teaspoon of sugar into her glass of lemonaid.

a) stirred
b) teaspoon
c) sugar
d) lemonaid

Show answer

d) lemonaid. Lemonade ends in ade, as made does.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) mesure
b) saucer
c) kettle
d) teaspoon

Show answer

a) mesure. Measure has ea, like pleasure; teaspoon, saucer and kettle are spelt right.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would you stir with a teaspoon?

a) a big pan of rice pudding
b) a cup of tea
c) a bucket of paint
d) a pot of soup for ten

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b) a cup of tea

2. A recipe needs one level teaspoon of sugar. About how much is that?

a) 5 millilitres
b) 50 millilitres
c) half a litre
d) 1 litre

Show answer

a) 5 millilitres

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with te: telephone, temporary, terrible

More words from this list

workshop, blackbird, data, environment, haven, manatee, pleasure, robotics

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