CREST International Spell Bee - Winter

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
  • Practice exam 1 – Available 24/7
  • Practice exam 2 – 20 December 2022
CSB (Winter) Practice Test 2 Answer Key Release Dates 22nd December 2022 till 23rd December 2023
CSB (Winter) Level 1 Exam Dates
  • 3 January 2023
  • 7 February 2023
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
Plurals
  • Simply by adding ‘s’ (e.g. pencil-pencils, apple-apples, parrot-parrots, etc.)
  • Adding ‘es’ to words ending in ‘ch’ (e.g. batch-batches, church-churches, speech-speeches, etc.)
  • Adding ‘es’ to words ending in ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘x’ or ‘sh’ (e.g. bush-bushes, glass-glasses, box-boxes, wish-wishes, etc.)
  • Adding ‘s’ to words ending in ‘y’ with a vowel before (e.g. turkey-turkeys, chimney-chimneys, etc.)
  • Replacing ‘y’ with ‘ies’ for words ending in ‘y’ with a consonant before (e.g. city-cities, diary-diaries, etc.)
  • Substituting/adding letters (e.g. loaf-loaves, goose-geese, etc.)
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
Proverbs
  • A bad workman always blames his tools
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
  • A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step
  • Actions speak louder than words
  • Adversity and loss make a man wise
  • All that glitters is not gold
  • An empty vessel makes much noise
  • An idle brain is the devil’s workshop
  • Cleanliness is next to godliness
  • Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
  • Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
  • Early bird catches the worm
  • Every cloud has a silver lining
  • Every man is the architect of his destiny
  • Fortune favours the brave
  • Good things come to those who wait
  • Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself
  • Necessity is the mother of invention
  • The pen is mightier than the sword
  • There is no time like the present
  • To gain something you have to lose something
Idioms
  • A dime a dozen
  • A penny saved is a penny earned
  • A piece of cake
  • An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
  • Barking up the wrong tree
  • Between the devil and the deep blue sea
  • Bite off more than you can chew
  • Blow your own trumpet
  • Burn the candle at both ends
  • Eat like a horse
  • Give someone the benefit of the doubt
  • Head in the clouds
  • In the same breath
  • Keep someone at arm’s length
  • Left out in the cold
  • Once in a blue moon
  • Pay someone back in his/her own coin
  • See eye to eye
  • Sell like hot cakes
  • Small cog in a large wheel
  • Take away your breath
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
Proverbs
  • A bad excuse is better than none at all
  • A drowning man will clutch at a straw
  • A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to spend it
  • A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile
  • A man in debt is caught in a net
  • A rolling stone gathers no moss
  • A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never
  • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
  • Appearances can be deceptive
  • Barking dogs seldom bite
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  • Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick
  • Cowards die many times before their death
  • Discretion is the better part of valour
  • Don’t place all your eggs in one basket
  • Familiarity breeds contempt
  • Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
  • You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
Idioms
  • A blessing in disguise
  • A flash in the pan
  • Birds of a feather flock together
  • Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
  • Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
  • Don’t cry over spilt milk
  • Drag one’s feet
  • Face the music
  • Get a taste of your own medicine
  • Go against the grain
  • Hand in glove
  • Hold your horses
  • Move heaven and earth
  • Play devil’s advocate
  • The devil is in the details
  • The elephant in the room
  • There’s no such thing as a free lunch
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.
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.