The CREST International Spell Bee (Winter), or CSBW, is India’s first online spelling assessment for kids in grades 1 to 8, evaluating students on the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of English words. As a result, it will assist students in fostering their lexical development, which is the foundation of the English language. Since spelling is necessary to absorb information, the Spell Bee competition is the base of students’ linguistic talents.
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In the CREST International Spell Bee, contestants are required to spell a variety of words with varying degrees of difficulty. The Spell Bee requires contestants to master the spellings of words as in dictionaries. The idea originated in the United States and has now spread to a number of other countries. Spell Bee events are only held in English-speaking countries. We will discuss the CSBW exam 2022 in detail in this article.
CSB (Winter) Exam Dates 2022-23
| Conducting Body | CREST Olympiads |
| Exam Name | CREST International Spell Bee – Winter (CSBW) |
| CSB (Winter) Practice Test Dates |
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| CSB (Winter) Practice Test 2 Answer Key Release Dates | 22nd December 2022 till 23rd December 2023 |
| CSB (Winter) Level 1 Exam Dates |
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| CSB (Winter) Level 2 Exam Date | NA |
| CSB (Winter) Level 1 Answer Key Release Date | 10 February 2023 till 11 February 2023 |
| CSB (Winter) Result Dates | To be announced |
Other Noteworthy Aspects of the CREST International Spell Bee (Winter 2021)
- A team of English language professionals meticulously created the examination.
- The first online proctored Spell Bee exam in India (Winter 2021).
- ‘Get, Set, Spell!’ is an online game.
- The exam has only one level.
- Students must complete an objective-type test in 60 minutes.
- The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary will be used as a source of information. This will be in terms of spelling and definitions. If the term cannot be located in this dictionary, it is considered that the word does not exist.
- All of the audio questions will have an Indian accent.
CSBW Exam Pattern- Level 1
| Section Name | Section Details | Classes1 & 2 | Classes 3 & 4 | Classes 5 & 6 | Classes 7 & 8 |
| Word Champ | Identify your word knowledge | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Spell Spies | Test your spelling skills | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Sound Check | Check your pronunciation | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Spellacadabra | Write correct words | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Jumble Tumble | Form meaningful words from jumbled letters | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Word Tally | Study the image & write your answers | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Word Tally | Find out the correct words | 6 | 6 | ||
| Spell-probe | Spellings based on meanings | 4 | 4 | ||
| Back to the Roots | Know the root word | 3 | |||
| Word Fusion | Make new words & compound words with suffixes, prefix | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Word Twins | Use the same word in multiple sentences | 3 | 3 | ||
| Word Puzzle | Match the words with meanings, antonyms and synonyms | 4 | 5 | ||
| Get, Set, Spell! | Hear and write the correct word | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Grand Total | 40 | 50 | 65 | 70 |
Level 2
| Section Name | Section Details | Classes1 & 2 | Classes 3 & 4 | Classes 5 & 6 | Classes 7 & 8 |
| Spell-o-Spell | Test your spelling skills | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Word Connection | Find antonyms, synonyms, masculine, feminine and other alternative words | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 |
| Word Makeup | Identify the right suffix, prefix and compound words | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| Mingle-Mangle | Form meaningful words from jumbled letters | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Picture Speak | Answer image-based questions | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Word Cookie | Catch single letter spelling errors | 12 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
| Word Melody | Write correct words based on phonetics | 4 | 4 | ||
| Word Ensemble | Check your knowledge of idioms, proverbs, etc. | 8 | 8 | ||
| Mathlish | Identify incorrect words while having fun with Maths | 8 | 8 | ||
| Word Chain | Link words based on a certain sequence | 4 | |||
| Rapid Fire | Hear and write the spelling of words quickly | 20 | 20 | 20 | |
| Grand Total | 40 | 60 | 80 | 80 |
CSBW Registration
The CREST International Spell Bee is open to students in grades 1 to 8. Students can enrol through their school or independently. A prospectus comprising school registration forms will be sent to all schools that have registered for the CREST Olympiad. Interested students should contact their school’s coordinator.
Individual registration is also available for students. On the official CREST Olympiads website, students can apply for individual registration.
CSBW Syllabus
The degree of difficulty varies depending on the class. The syllabus for primary schools includes themes such as animal and bird spellings, colours, STEM concepts, antonyms, and so on. The CSBW syllabus incorporates subjects from Wren and Martin’s book, as well as the High School English Grammar and Composition book for higher grades. Here are the class-wise syllabus details for CSBW Exam 2022.
CSBW Class 1 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
| Animals | Alligator, bear, bull, camel, cat, cow, crab, deer, donkey, elephant, fish, fox, frog, goat, horse, lion, monkey, mouse, ox, pig, rabbit, shark, sheep, snail, tiger, turtle, wolf, yak and zebra |
| Birds | Cock, crane, crow, dove, duck, eagle, goose, hen, owl, parrot, peacock, pigeon, sparrow, swan and turkey |
| Animals: Homes, young ones, and sound | Bear-cub, bee-buzz, buffalo-grunt, camel-desert, cat-kitten, cat-meow, cow-calf, crow-caw, deer-fawn, frog-croak, horse-colt, lion-roar, mouse-burrow, parrot-cage, pigeon-coo and sheep-baa |
| Colours | Black, blue, brown, green, khaki, orange, pink, purple, red, violet, white and yellow |
| Body parts | Arm, cheek, chest, chin, ear, eye, finger, hair, hand, knee, leg, lip, mouth, nail, neck, nose, teeth and tongue |
| Food items | Biscuit, bread, butter, carrot, cheese, chilli, chocolate, corn, egg, maize, milk, pasta, potato, rice, salad, salt, sandwich, sauce, soup, sugar, tea and tomato |
| Household items | Bowl, chair, cooker, cooler, flask, glass, hanger, heater, jug, kitchen, lamp, mirror, mug, napkin, needle, plate, spoon, table and towel |
| Occupation | Actor, artist, cook, dancer, dentist, doctor, driver, farmer, nurse, painter, pilot, policeman, postman, sailor, singer, soldier, tailor, teacher, waiter and writer |
| Relationships | Aunt, brother, child, children, daddy, father, mother, parent, sister, son, uncle and wife |
| Trees, plants, flowers or fruits | Apple, bamboo, banana, banyan, berry, coconut, cotton, grain, grape, lemon, lily, lotus, mango, marigold, oak, olive, orange, palm, papaya, pine, rose and watermelon |
| Clothing | Belt, boot, boots, cap, coat, frock, gown, hat, jeans, pants, sandals, shirt, shoes, shorts, slippers, socks, suit and tie |
| Science | Aeroplane, air, animal, branch, climate, cloth, cloud, drain, flower, gas, heat, hygiene, jungle, leaf, liquid, matter, mountain, natural, nature, nest, pencil, people, plant, rainbow, root, school, season, solid, stem and volcano |
| Adjectives | Active, afraid, beautiful, better, big, bitter, brave, bright, calm, careless, different, dull, empty, favourite, flat, giant, huge, hungry, joyful, little, loud, naughty, nervous, pretty, proud, quick, quiet, ripe, sharp, tall, tasty, tired, warm and young |
| Verbs | Aim, bake, bathe, bleed, bring, check, climb, continue, crawl, create, cross, cry, dance, decorate, describe, destroy, dream, drink, enjoy, float, guess, imagine, jump, laugh, learn, listen, play, pretend, prick, read, recite, scream, shout, sing, sleep, stick, study, swing, talk, throw, trick, trouble, wake, wipe, wish, write and yawn |
| Synonyms | Afraid-scared, big-large, blank-empty, calm-silent, crawl-move, create-build, evil-bad, giant-huge-large, hide-cover, learn-study, merry-happy, pretty-beautiful and wash-clean |
| Antonyms | Above-below, bad-good, big-small, brave-fearful, clean-dirty, clever-stupid, continue-stop, dark-bright, empty-full, fat-thin, happy-sad, in-out, joy-sorrow, late-early, laugh-cry, listen-ignore, poor-rich, quiet-noisy, slow-fast, up-down and warm-cold |
| Double letter words | Balloon, beep, bell, breeze, cell, coffee, door, egg, feel, food, kitten, letter, marry, merry, pattern, puzzle, ribbon, riddle, ripple, scissors, speech, summer, toffee, tool, tree, umbrella and wheel |
CSBW Class 2 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
| Animals | Buffalo, cheetah, chimpanzee, giraffe, gorilla, hare, hippopotamus, jaguar, kangaroo, leopard, pony and squirrel |
| Birds | Canary, hornbill, hummingbird, kingfisher, kiwi, magpie, ostrich, robin, vulture and woodpecker |
| Insects | Ant, beetle, butterfly, caterpillar, cockroach, grasshopper, honeybee, housefly, spider and worm |
| Animals: Homes, young ones, and sound | Bear-growl, cow-moo, dog-bark, donkey-bray, duck-quack, elephant-trumpet, fox-cub, goat-bleat, horse-neigh, horse-stable, lion-cave, monkey-infant, mouse-squeak, owl-owlet, pig-grunt, sheep-lamb and sheep-shed |
| Body parts | Calf, claw, elbow, eyebrow, eyelash, foot, forehead, heel, jaw, nostril, ribs, shoulder, stomach, toe and wings |
| Relationships | Classmate, cousin, daughter, family, grandchild, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, grandson and husband |
| Food items | Burger, cabbage, cereal, cookie, cupcake, honey, pumpkin, spice and wheat |
| Trees, plants, flowers or fruits | Blueberry, cauliflower, daisy, grapes, jasmine, peach, pear, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, sunflower and tulip |
| Clothing | Gloves, jacket, scarf, skirt, stockings, sweater, trousers and uniform |
| Everyday items | Basket, bench, bicycle, box, breakfast, brick, brush, bucket, building, carpet, carriage, chain, eraser, loaf, packet, picture, plank, prize, quilt, skate, spade, stack, stamp, tram and water |
| Our environment | Church, circus, clown, court, crew, field, frost, game, garden, ground, lawn, magic, market, morning, park, place, prisoner, river, scrap, sea, shade, shadow, shape, shell, shower, smoke, space, splash, stone, string, thorn, track, window and yard |
| Adjectives | Another, awake, bare, blind, blunt, bulky, careful, caring, clean, dark, dirty, eager, early, fair, firm, gentle, grey, happy, jolly, keen, kind, large, lazy, mad, plump, queer, sad and second |
| Preposition/Adverbs | Always, behind, below, everywhere, from, inside, into, outside, quite, soon, then, there, through, until, upstairs, with and yesterday |
| Verbs | Arrive, blow, bounce, burst, carry, chew, chirp, count, crash, decide, dive, draw, drive, enter, exit, finish, freeze, grunt, hear, help, hide, invite, join, leave, live, mend, pass, please and push |
| Synonyms | Crash-smash, gentle-pleasant, giant-large, grow-cultivate, ill-sick, jog-run, listen-hear, little-small, lucky- fortunate, neat-tidy, puzzle-riddle, sack-bag, stout-fat, true-right, wise-clever and wonder-amaze |
| Antonyms | Angry-rage, begin-finish, care-ignore, create-destroy, dream-reality, last-first, lazy-lively, noise-quiet, remember- forget, right-wrong, sell-buy, separate-combine, short-long, sour-sweet, start-stop and thick-thin |
| Double letter words | Across, between, book, bottle, broom, bubble, cheer, cottage, creek, dinner, floor, fuss, kennel, nineteen, queen, success, village and weed |
CSBW Class 3 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
| Environment | Creature, forest, habitat, herd, insect, plateau, pollution, radish, region, stream, structure, thunder, turnip and vegetable |
| Transport and communication | Adapter, cruise, desktop, dumper, ferry, helicopter, journey, keyboard, laptop, mobile, monitor, railway, ship, steamer and vehicle |
| Body | Activity, muscle and waist |
| Sports | Badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, hockey, karate and tennis |
| Emotions, requests, apology or greetings | Angry, contempt, contentment, crying, disgust, excitement, fear, happiness, joy, sadness, surprise and trust |
| Quantity | Fortnight, hundred, plenty, thousand, twelve and various |
| Masculine and feminine | Actor-actress, author-authoress, brother-sister, bull-cow, father-mother, gander-goose, gentleman-lady, god-goddess, grandfather-grandmother, hunter-huntress, husband-wife, king-queen, landlord-landlady, lion-lioness, peacock-peahen, prince-princess, son-daughter, tiger-tigress, uncle-aunt and waiter-waitress |
| Prefix | Co(exist, pilot, etc.), dis(honest, like, etc), en(large, case, etc.), in(ability, active, etc.), non(sense, etc.), pre(paid, view, etc.), re(discover, do, etc.), sub(title, etc.), tele(vision, etc.), tri(angle, etc.) and un(friendly, happy, etc.) |
| Suffix (age, ed, ied, ful, ly) | break(age), cover(age), marr(iage), percent(age), post(age), laugh(ed), talk(ed), walk(ed), carr(ied), hurr(ied), stud(ied), worr(ied), cheer(ful), harm(ful), thank(ful), play(ful), brave(ly), kind(ly), lone(ly), love(ly) and slow(ly) |
| Adjectives | Childish, creeping, curly, destructive, difficult, domestic, enormous, entire, foolish, funny, heavy, interesting, lovely, magnificent, married, mighty, mischievous, playful, plump, precious, separate, silent, silly, slippery, sorry, square, suitable, thick, thirsty, whole and worried |
| Adverbs | Angrily, beautifully, carefully, cheerfully, completely, correctly, definitely, entirely, extremely, fearfully, happily, heavily, lazily, lifelessly, opposite, perhaps, proudly, silently, smoothly, suddenly, surely and totally |
| Verbs | Ache, admire, admit, amuse, annoy, arrange, believe, bore, bother, bounce, burrow, calculate, carve, chase, confuse, congratulate, consist, decide, discuss, disdain, divide, escape, excite, frighten, frown, frustrate, happen, haul, hurt, identify, improve, plunder, pounce, quarrel, receive, require, scold, shake, spoil, squeeze, struggle, suppose, twist, wonder and wriggle |
| Synonyms | Accuse-blame, advantage-benefit, alike-same, ancient-old, annoy-irritate, ask-enquire, buy-purchase, childish-silly, garbage-trash, glitter-shiny, harsh-cruel, precious-valuable, quarrel-fight and rich-wealthy |
| Antonyms | Accuse-defend, artificial – natural, attractive – repulsive, bother-calm, broad – narrow, confess-deny, delicate-hard, flutter-steady, foolish-wise, funny-boring, mighty-delicate, misery-happiness, prevent-allow, scold-praise, spend-save, tiny-big and upset-joyful |
| Compound words | Aeroplane, afternoon, airport, bookshelf, bookstore, bookworm, campfire, candlestick, caveman, downward, haircut, handmade, headache, mailbox, newspaper, suitcase, sunglasses, supermarket, underground, upstream and weekend |
| Words with silent letters | Acquit, autumn, breathe, business, column, communication, debt, doubt, freight, high, honest, hour, knead, knife, knock, know, patient, sigh, sign, stretch, wednesday and whistle |
| Double letter words | Beer, beetle, between, cabbage, cobbler, cooking, crook, cucumber, difference, expression, feed, fellow, freeze, hobby, hood, hooked, indeed, jeep, looked, loose, passenger, pebble, puppet, room, rooster, shallow, sleeve, smooth, street, sweep, tooth, valley, volunteer, wedding, wood and woollen |
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| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Adventure, brownie, building, costume, diagram, dramatist, envelope, feather, feature, gardener, gesture, graduate, librarian, magazine, manual, nursery, phrase, rhythm, scout, shepherd, straight, treasure and triumph |
CSBW Class 4 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
| Education | Academic, alphabet, competition, curriculum, dialogue, discipline, experience, information, instruction, internship, jingle, knowledge, literature, recipient, scholar, scholarship, training and tuition |
| Science and technology | Amphibian, animation, attraction, axis, biodiversity, biosphere, bookmark, compression, creature, cyberspace, deforestation, eclipse, ecology, ecosystem, environment, epicentre, equator, evolution, firewall, genetics, geology, gravity, interface, laboratory, malware, measure, ocean, planet, processor, radiation, renewable, resistor, resource, robotics, rotation, router, satellite, scientific, server and transpiration |
| Clothing | Blanket, slacks and sweatshirt |
| Aquatic life | Dugong, grouper, haddock, halibut, herring, prawn, puffin, seagull, seal and waterweed |
| Occupation | Actress, author, blacksmith, businessman, carpenter, coach, electrician, engineer, fisherman, goldsmith, hairdresser, judge, lawyer, mason, mechanic, narrator, peon, plumber, politician, reporter, scientist, sportsman, surgeon, trainer and wrestler |
| Sports | Archery, baseball, challenge, gymnastics, rugby, skateboarding, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling |
| Transport and communication | Conveyance, helicopter, motorcycle, roadway, tablet and telephone |
| Abstract nouns | Courage, creativity, curiosity, delight, fearlessness, guilt, innocent, pleasure, pride, quietness, shame and sorrow |
| Prefix | Auto(close, pilot, etc.), dis(obey, respect, etc.), fore(cast, head, etc.), im(port, possible, etc.), in(ability, definite, etc.), mid(life, way, etc.), mis(behave, fortune, understand, etc.), pre(cast, determine, etc.), re(build, call, discover, etc.), semi(automatic, circle, final, etc.), sub(marine, merge, etc.), un(aware, close, conscious, etc.) and uni(directional, lateral, etc.) |
| Suffix (able, al, ance, ant, ence, est, ful, ial, ion, ish, ize, less, ly, st) | Agree(able), accident(al), origin(al), politic(al), accept(ance), perform(ance), account(ant), contest(ant), differ(ence), exist(ence), refer(ence), infer(ence), fast(est), high(est), low(est), delight(ful), financ(ial), part(ial), president(ial), prevent(ion), child(ish), general(ize), modern(ize), hope(less), hopeful(ly), natural(ly), pleasant(ly), adamant(ly), bad(ly) and simple(st) |
| Adjectives | Appropriate, attentive, awake, blind, brief, creative, cruel, delicious, efficient, entire, essential, extraordinary, fluent, greedy, handsome, harsh, heroic, horrible, intelligent, invisible, peculiar, polite, queer, shabby, strange and timid |
| Adverbs | Absolutely, accurately, adoringly, awkwardly, beneath, brutally, certainly, frequently, never, positively, previously, quickly, rapidly, urgently, warmly and wishfully |
| Verbs | Accept, accuse, agree, argue, believe, blame, breathe, buckle, chatter, chirp, communicate, congratulate, consider, debate, discuss, elope, exclaim, gasp, gather, gaze, gleam, graze, hail, irritate, obey, observe, quarrel, rescue, search, shatter, tickle, twirl, understand, verify and whisper |
| Synonyms | Ability-capacity, cease-stop, firm-strong, gather-collect, giggle-laugh, honest-faithful, horrible-terrible, interesting-exciting, mistake-error, opportunity-chance, plenty-abundance, reject-deny, reward-prize, round-circular, sincere-honest, stable-fixed, unfortunate-unlucky, wonderful-amazing and wrong-incorrect |
| Antonyms | Bitter-sweet, decline-accept, defend-harm, definite-indefinite, exterior-interior, fail-succeed, forever-never, fortunate-unfortunate, gloomy-cheerful, greedy-charitable, healthy-diseased, intentional-accidental, merry-serious, patient-agitated, polite-rude, relax-stress, strange-familiar, triumph-fail and ugly-beautiful |
| Compound words | Beehive, blackmail, brainstorm, briefcase, copyright, crossword, earthquake, farmhouse, farmyard, father-in-law, fingerprint, french fry, full moon, hillside, ice cream, moonlight, notebook, raincoat, real estate, thunderstorm, toothpaste, video game, waistcoat and wonderland |
| Words with silent letters | Ballet, bridge, champagne, colleague, column, edge, foreign, grudge, guard, heir, island, knit, knot, length, neighbour, often, receipt, strength, though, tongue and wrist |
| Double letter words | Across, button, clatter, gossip, hurry, illicit, lagoon, loot, mammal, messy, offend, possible, programme, saddle, seepage, spree, summary, syllabus and tariff |
| Masculine and feminine | Bachelor-maid, bridegroom-bride, dog-bitch, drake-duck, drone-bee, duke-duchess, emperor-empress, heir-heiress, hero-heroine, horse-mare, host-hostess, master-mistress, nephew-niece, poet-poetess, policeman-policewoman, priest-priestess, widower-widow and wizard-witch |
| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Accommodation, address, admittance, ancestor, anxiety, aquarium, bachelor, beginning, committee, computer, disappoint, necessary, plentiful, safety and trespass |
CSBW Class 5 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
| STEM words | Appliance, astronomy, atmosphere, broadcasting, canyon, celestial, communication, cosmic, cosmogony, cosmography, crust, degradation, density, electricity, equipment, erosion, extinct, gadget, galaxy, glacier, gravitation, joystick, landmass, livelihood, loam, magma, membrane, microscope, organism, oxygen, revolution, species, toxic, visual and wildlife |
| Household items | Bedding, blanket, blender, blower, bookcase, ceiling, conditioner, dryer, geyser, mattress, microwave, refrigerator and utensil |
| Agriculture | Agronomy, biofuel, breeding, cereal, decomposition, domestication, drought, fertilizer, gardening, harvest, insecticide, peasant, plantation, poultry and textile |
| Government affairs | Account, allegiance, article, balance, ballot, budget, cabinet, census, chronicle, chronology, constitution, coordination, court, executive, freedom, judiciary, legislative, liberty, parliament, president, procedure, resemble and strategy |
| Occupation | Accountant, architect, assistant astronomer, beautician, carpenter, chauffeur, engineer firefighter, hairdresser, historian, journalist, magician and musician |
| Words from diary of a wimpy kid | Appetite, bouquet, brace, catalogue, complicate, considerate, disappoint, dismantle, embarrass, extinguisher, journal, popularity, ridiculous, scramble, scratch and worthless |
| Prefix | Anti(biotic, dote, etc.) de(escalate, frost, value, etc.) il(legal, logical, etc.), im(possible, etc.), ir(responsible, etc.), mono(chrome, tone, etc.), pre(determine, fix, etc.), re(affirm, discover, turn, etc.), semi(circle, final, etc.), super(star, etc.), trans(port, etc.) and tri(cycle, etc.) |
| Suffix (able, age, al, ant, ate, cy, en, ful, ian, ic, ion) | Prevent(able), pilgrim(age), wreck(age), nature(al), vigil(ant), affection(ate), accurate(cy), candidate(cy), strength(en), wonder(ful), library(ian), magic(ian), alcohol(ic), workahol(ic), create(ion) and narrate(ion) |
| Adjectives | Abandoned, absolute, adjacent, aggressive, aggressive, ancient, apparent, approximate, approximate, ashamed, attractive, available, baggy, bare, biodegradable, boisterous, bountiful, brilliant, caring, challenging, comfortable, continent, convenient, cosmic, courageous, courteous, devastated, disposable, disposable, equivalent, excellent, excited, extinct, faithful, feeble, frigid, generous, gigantic, gigantic, grateful, hilarious, impatient, imperative, impressive, inappropriate, incredible, industrious, loyal, medicinal, miniature, noble, primitive, realistic, return, savage, shrewd, slender, solitary, stern, sustainable, thrifty, transparent, unique and wealthy |
| Adverbs | Adoringly, awkwardly, clumsily, competitively, decisively, easily, everywhere, normally, really, regularly, repeatedly, sometimes, terribly, timidly and usually |
| Abstract nouns | Amusement, anger, contentment, courage, embarrassment, excitement, guilt, laughter, relief and sentiment |
| Verbs | Abdicate, accelerate, accustom, acknowledge, acquit, affirm, amend, astound, behold, besiege, blaze, bother, contaminate, emerge, encourage, ensure, escalate, evade, exasperate, exhibit glitter, grizzle, hinder, illuminate, intrigue, prohibit, recognize, repudiate, revive, sparkle, stare, sympathize and wander |
| Synonyms | Admit-confess, alike-same, artisan-craftsman, barren-infertile, blunder-mistake, bruise-injury, coarse-rough, continue-progress, create-invent, crumble-collapse, delicious-tasty, depart-leave, elegant-graceful, fascinate-attract, fierce-violent, grumpy-irritable, humble-respectful, insight-perception, mirth-happiness, obedient-respectful, plunder-protect, religious-spiritual, significance-importance and thrill-excitement |
| Antonyms | Artificial-natural, ascend-descend, attractive-repulsive, beautiful-ugly, bitter-sweet, bravery-cowardice, brighten-fade, broad-narrow, bully-boost, clumsy-graceful, command-assist, cruel-compassionate, frighten-comfort, hinder-allow, protest-agree, regard-ignore, studious-lethargic, plump-skinny, tempt-discourage and tremble-calm |
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| Compound words | Babysitter, backstage, backtrack, barefoot, basketball brainstorm, campfire, candlestick, chairperson, championship, cornmeal, countdown, counterpart, courtyard, crossover, daredevil, dashboard, dishwasher, eardrum, fingernail, flowerpot, guard rail, lighthouse, meanwhile, pancake, popcorn, roommate, skateboard, somewhere, spokesperson, therefore and underdog |
| Homonyms & Homophones | Accept-except, addition-edition, allowed-aloud, ate-eight, bale-bail, band-bend, break-brake, ceiling-sealing, cellar-seller, cell-sell, cite-site, dear-deer, die-dye, dual-duel, fair-fare and new-knew |
| Words with silent letters | Align, ascend, assign, autumn, badge, campaign, Christmas, crescent, cupboard, design, edge, foreign, hustle, kneel, knob, psychology, resign, wreck and wrinkle |
| Double letter words | Annual, append, baggage, broom, deed, errand, esteem, heed, hull, immune, juggle, luggage, rugged and savvy |
| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Achievement, catastrophe, compassion, description, etiquette, guardian, isthmus, mischief, mosquito, orchestra, repetition, restaurant, sanctuary, trumpet and variety |
CSBW Class 6 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
| STEM Words | Agrarian, apiculture, artery, bone, cartilage, conservation, conversation, cowshed, cultivation, cultivator, deforestation, equipment, exploitation, farmland, femur, ferry, fishery, freight, funnel, galaxy, gland, haulage, horticulture, husbandry, immunology, intestine, irrigation, kidney, ligament, liver, livestock, logistics, malnutrition, manure, measure, meteorology, nerve, observatory, pancreas, pasture, peninsula, pesticide, petroleum, pipette, plateau, plough, pollution, portable, preservation, printer, sandpaper, scanner, seismology, shipment, shuttle, skeleton, skull, spleen, stylus, telecommunication, tissue and vertebrate |
| Professionals/Doctors | Anaesthesiologist, cardiologist, collector, dermatologist, gynaecologist, mathematician, nephrologist, neurologist, obstetrician, ocularist, oncologist, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, pastor, paediatrician, pharmacist, professor, psychiatrist, radiologist, receptionist, veterinarian and waitress |
| Government and economy | Amendment, census, citizenship, debt, defence, demonstration, document, election, electorate, executive, government, representative and troupe |
| Education | Guidance, literacy, pedagogy, progress, schooling, vocabulary and vocation |
| Words from Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Blubber, campaign, demonstrate, extinguisher, gimmick, Halloween, intelligence, legitimate, neighbourhood, pretzel, sarcastic, treasurer and underneath |
| Prefix | Ante(date, etc.), de(motivate, etc.), dis(integrate, etc.), epi(dermis, etc.), fore(word, etc.), hyper(active, etc.), im(patient, etc.), main(land, etc.), mis(interpret, etc.), omni(potent, etc.), para(dox, etc.), re(unite, etc.), semi(conscious, etc.), sub(merge, etc.), thermo(meter, etc.), under(graduate, etc.) and up(bringing, etc.) |
| Suffix (acy, al, ary, gamy, hood, ial, ist, ment, and ship) | Fall(acy), accident(al), fiction(al), region(al), second(ary), poly(gamy), child(hood), mother(hood), editor(ial), hero(ism), art(ist), accomplish(ment), refine(ment) and scholar(ship) |
| Adjectives | Burning, cautious, challenging, clumsy, comfortable, crowded, cunning, curious, dangerous, distinguished, fabulous, faithful, federal, fundamental, gaseous, generous, handsome, hilarious, numerous, obstinate, onward, popular, powerful, precious, proclaim, professional, splendid, squeaky, unitary and unsustainable |
| Adverbs | Abruptly, absolutely, almost, anxiously, deliberately, diligently, financially, horribly, lifelessly, occasionally, patiently, randomly, savagely, seldom, sometime, upwards and willingly |
| Abstract nouns | Disgust and gratitude |
| Verbs | Accommodate, anticipate, appoint, conquer, crackle, crouch, evaporate, exaggerate, falter, guarantee, hammer, harness, immigrate, interrupt, license, mesmerise, mumble, quiver, respite, snore, sprinkle, sprout, straggle, vanquish and wreathe |
| Synonyms | Bewilder-perplex, conscious-aware, disciple-follower, embellish-decorate, fatigue-tiredness, gratitude-thankful, humility-humble, persuade-convince, scatter-disperse and unlucky-unfortunate |
| Antonyms | Afflict-please, applaud-blame, compulsory-voluntary, courage-cowardice, courteous-discourteous, embarrass-delight, generous-stingy, important-trivial and servile-dominant |
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| Compound words | Backspace, farmhouse, farmyard, framework, full moon, gallstone, gearshift, headquarters, honeycomb, moreover, superego, undercharge, undercover and widespread |
| Homonyms & Homophones | Alter-altar, compliment- complement, course-coarse, elicit-illicit, eminent-imminent, flower-flour, grown-groan, hoarse-horse, loan-lone, match-match, meddle-medal, meet-meat, pale-pail, peace-piece, principle-principal and weak-week |
| Words with silent letters | Apostle, circuit, colonel, consign, diaphragm, feign, gnaw, hedge, hymn, knuckle, pneumonia, raspberry, wrestle and yolk |
| Double letter words | Allegiance, applaud, battalion, battalion, brilliant, dissolve, illusion, illustration, obsession, occasion, occult, seer, skiing, strolling, summit, unforgettable, upkeep and webbed |
| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Gaggle, obstacle, optimism, precipitation, renaissance, scrubber and shoal |
CSBW Class 7 Syllabus
- Section 1
All the words for Level 1 and Level 2 will be from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin book.
- Section 2
It’s a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words.
This section will be based on the words from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin.
CSBW Class 8 Syllabus
- Section 1
All the words for Level 1 and Level 2 will be from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin’s book.
- Section 2
It’s a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words.
This section will be based on the words from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin.
Other CREST Olympiad Exams
| CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO) |
| CREST English Olympiad (CEO) |
| CREST Reasoning Olympiad (CRO) |
| CREST Cyber Olympiad (CCO) |
| CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) |
| CREST Science Olympiad (CSO) |
Frequently Asked Questions on CSBW 2022
Q1
What is the CSBW?
The CREST International Spell Bee 2022 (Winter) is India’s first online spelling evaluation for the Classes 1 to 8, which evaluates students on their understanding of the English language, spelling, and pronunciation. The Spell Bee competition is the bedrock of one’s language abilities, as spelling is required to grasp information.
Q2
What are the awards and recognition of the CSBW
A merit certificate will be given to all students who pass Level 2.
A medal and a certificate of achievement will be awarded to the top 40% of students in Level 2.
The achiever trophy and merit certificate will be presented to the CREST Spell Bee class winners.
A digital attendance certificate will be given to each participant. It will be visible on the participant’s dashboard.
A student will be eligible for a higher prize if they satisfy two or more requirements.
A medal and a certificate of achievement will be awarded to the top 40% of students in Level 2.
The achiever trophy and merit certificate will be presented to the CREST Spell Bee class winners.
A digital attendance certificate will be given to each participant. It will be visible on the participant’s dashboard.
A student will be eligible for a higher prize if they satisfy two or more requirements.
Q3
Who is eligible to compete in the CREST Olympiads?
Level 1: Students in grades Pre-Kindergarten to 10 are eligible to take the Level 1 test.
Level 2: Level 2 is organised for kids in grades 3 to 10 solely for English, Maths, and Science, whereas the Spell Bee Summer is for students in grades 1 to 8.
Level 2: Level 2 is organised for kids in grades 3 to 10 solely for English, Maths, and Science, whereas the Spell Bee Summer is for students in grades 1 to 8.
