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Spell Bee Word: Tomato


What does tomato mean?

Word: Tomato

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Tomato means a soft, round, red fruit with seeds inside. We use it in salads, chutney, sauce and curry.

How do you spell tomato?

Syllables: to - ma - to

Tricky part: One tomato has no e at the end; only the plural, tomatoes, takes es. Tomatoe is the slip that the plural causes.

Watch out for: tomatoe, tomatto

Memory tip: Tomato and potato end the same way, with a plain o. Picture them side by side in a basket, neither one wearing an e.

Tomato in a sentence

Example 1: Amma added a chopped tomato to the dal.

Example 2: This tomato is so ripe that it is very soft.

Example 3: We grew three tomato plants on our balcony.

Fun Fact

Tomato plants first grew in South America. They came to India only a few hundred years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tomato
b) tomoto
c) tometo
d) tamato

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a) tomato. Say to-ma-to: o in the first beat, a in the middle one.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

atomto

a) toamto
b) tomato
c) tmoato
d) tomoat

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b) tomato. These six letters spell the red fruit we put in chutney.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

tommato

a) a
b) m
c) o
d) t

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b) m. Take out one of the two m's and to-ma-to is back.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Papa put a slice of tomato in my sanwich.

a) slice
b) sanwich
c) tomato
d) Papa

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b) sanwich. Sandwich has a d after the n: sand-wich.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is made mainly from tomatoes?

a) custard
b) ketchup
c) mayonnaise
d) honey

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b) ketchup

2. An unripe tomato is usually ____.

a) brown
b) purple
c) pink
d) green

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d) green

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with to: town, tongue, towel, tooth, tool

More words from this list

alligator, brand, cook, farm, hammer, meerkat, porcupine, shorts

Next steps

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