spelt

Heritage bread grain

Spelt is a grain related to wheat, one of the oldest cultivated crops, now grown mainly for health food markets.

It has a nutty flavor and is sometimes tolerated by people with mild wheat sensitivities: spelt bread, spelt flour.

Separately, spelt is a past tense and past participle of spell, more common in British than American English: She spelt it wrong.

bread

sourdough

Wild-yeast bread starter

crust · bake · oven · dough · knead · proofing · yeast · bakery · rustic · hearty

grain

emmer

Primitive hulled wheat species

  • farroAncient hulled wheat
  • kamutAncient wheat variety
  • wheatCereal crop for flour

cereal · kernel · husk · wholegrain · seed · berry · groats · flour · bran · germ

history

ancient

Very old indeed

domestication · Fertile Crescent · medieval · Europe · prehistoric · antiquity · traditional · heritage · revival · heirloom

farming

harvest

Gathering mature crops

crop · agriculture · field · sowing · reaping · combine · husbandry · yield · fallow · crop rotation

nutrition

fiber

Plant-based digestive aid

zinc · iron · niacin · thiamine · riboflavin · phosphorus · manganese · B vitamins · wholefood · dietary

Categories
Opposites
grain modernity/cultivation status

speltcommon wheat

Primary flour grain species

bread wheat · corn · rice

grain type

speltrice

Staple cereal grain

corn · maize · oats · barley · rye

SPELLING ACTION (verb past tense)

speltmisspelt

Written with wrong letters

misspelled · unspell

Phrases
Family

spell, gospel, spelling, dispel, spelled, spellbound, speller, dispelled, misspelt

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G