Fifth Grade Spelling Words
List 1
• rough
• grudge
• stunt
• thumb
• once
• another
• does
• trouble
• cousin
• began
• oxygen
• copy
• very
• until
• umpire
• sudden
• which
• city
List 2 Long a sound/identify words with open syllables
• afraid
• explain
• payment
• sleigh
• laid
• raise
• straight
• freight
• height
• they
• favorite
• April
• able
• radio
• station
• relation
• daybreak
• trace
List 3 Spell words with long e sound, Spell words with long u sound, Recognize the short vowel sound in been
• fifteen
• referee
• eager
• easily
• ready
• please
• ecology
• maybe
• been
• only
• universe
• future
• communicate
• beautiful
• unusual
• cute
• cube
• fuel
List 4 Spell words with long o sound and spell words in the present and past tenses
• obey
• ocean
• poem
• echo
• hello
• wrote
• goal
• approach
• owner
• tomorrow
• program
• broken
• potato
• throat
• oldest
• followed
• spoken
• awoke
List 5 Spell contractions and learn homophones who’s and whose
• I’ll
• they’ve
• don’t
• we’re
• didn’t
• isn’t
• couldn’t
• haven’t
• o’clock
• you’re
• who’s
• whose
• aren’t
• it’s
• doesn’t
• there’s
• won’t
• I’ve
List 6 Spell words with the long i sound and spell words by adding the ending –ing
• idea
• silent
• myself
• lying
• apply
• knight
• quite
• I’m
• license
• buy
• inquire
• higher
• variety
• smiling
• diagram
• rhyme
• widest
• python
List 7 Spell words with the /oo/ sounds spelled oo, ou, ue, u, and ew and Spell words with the vowel sound in look
• gloomy
• school
• choose
• loose
• route
• clue
• truth
• duty
• ruin
• Tuesday
• usually
• threw
• understood
• neighborhood
• rookie
• could
• should
• bulletin
List 8 Spell words with the dipthongs oi and oy and spell words with the digraphs ou and ow
• spoil
• choice
• avoid
• moisture
• oyster
• royal
• employ
• annoy
• ground
• house
• sprout
• mountain
• allow
• ourselves
• somehow
• ounce
• amount
• boundary
List 9: Spell three types of compound words (one word, two words, and hyphenated words)
• baby-sit
• first aid
• flashlight
• high school
• goalkeeper
• all right
• airmail
• one-way
• bodyguard
• something
• good-bye
• birthday
• outside
• everybody
• everyone
• anything
• themselves
• himself
Spell 10 Spell words with the /aw/ sound
• stalk
• off
• because
• brought
• called
• drawn
• awful
• awkward
• lawyer
• daughter
• fault
• author
• always
• already
• although
• belong
• office
• haul
Spell 11 Spell words with the endings –ed, -ing, -er, and –est
• surrounded
• skiing
• swimming
• loving
• studied
• traveling
• carried
• trading
• bragged
• worried
• beginning
• exciting
• finished
• laughed
• quickest
• weaker
• tiniest
• lonelier
Spell 12 Spell plural forms of words by adding endings to base words Spell words with irregular plural forms
• countries
• addresses
• women
• lessons
• people
• skis
• friends
• roofs
• calves
• fences
• flies
• lives
• cherries
• businesses
• guesses
• families
• leaves
• pictures
Spell 13 Spell words with /er/ sound Spell two- and three-syllable words
• urgent
• Thursday
• purpose
• thirsty
• camera
• wonder
• smuggler
• remember
• surprise
• earth
• certain
• person
• dollar
• color
• collar
• early
• mayor
• doctor
Spell 14 Spell words with r-controlled vowel sounds
• square
• stare
• dairy
• area
• January
• dictionary
• daring
• beware
• argument
• large
• partner
• guarding
• article
• orchestra
• ordinary
• important
• force
• before
Spell 15 Spell words with the schwa sound Spell two-syllable words Review the /er/sound
• about
• algebra
• quiet
• other
• compare
• thousand
• happen
• different
• along
• equator
• dozen
• animal
• second
• region
• quarter
• lecture
• puncture
• again
Spell 16 Spell words with the consonant digraphs wh, ch, tch, sh, and th Spell plural forms of words
• awhile
• where
• thought
• athletes
• truthful
• purchases
• exchange
• though
• rhythm
• children
• chocolates
• friendship
• together
• white
• watches
• arithmetic
• months
• length
Spell 17 Spell words with the variant sounds of g and c
• signal
• regular
• generous
• energy
• bridge
• genius
• dangerous
• segment
• figure
• country
• circle
• concert
• peaceful
• nice
• since
• electric
• dancing
• decided
Spell 18 (Spell words with the final /l/ sound spelled le, el, or al)
• eagle
• example
• towel
• special
• legal
• little
• whole
• several
• terrible
• label
• question
• frequent
• telescope
• instead
• instrument
• celebrate
• declare
• address
Spell 19 (Spell words with ie and ei)
• tried
• weigh
• piece
• receive
• their
• fierce
• neither
• field
• receiving
• trying
• hurried
• siege
• weighs
• writing
• worries
• tired
• having
• planned
Spell 20 (Spell words with suffixes ness, ist, and ant and words with endings ly, er, or and ar)
• kindness
• darkness
• happiness
• loneliness
• sadness
• weakness
• exactly
• honestly
• speedily
• angrily
• happily
• friendly
• especially
• teacher
• actor
• liar
• biologist
• assistant
Spell 21 (Review long vowel sounds. Review the sounds of /oo/ and /ow/)
• scene
• they’re
• through
• heir
• clothes
• byte
• aloud
• cruise
• crews
• isle
• principal
• principle
• hour
• knew
• two
• write
• chute
• reign
Spell 22 Spell words with suffixes -ful, -ment, and –less
Spell multisyllabic words
• thoughtful
• successful
• wasteful
• wonderful
• skillful
• plentiful
• government
• amusement
• predicament
• excitement
• punishment
• arrangement
• fearless
• careless
• worthless
• thoughtless
• useless
• reckless
Spell 23 Spell words with the sound of /sh/ spelled sh,s, ci, ti, ss, or si
• shoes
• sure
• sugar
• musician
• patience
• mission
• occasion
• physician
• tension
• conclusion
• constitution
• caution
• constellation
• addition
• fiction
• position
• official
• glacier
Spell 24 Spell words with silent letters
• wrestle
• wrong
• answer
• dough
• unknown
• knapsack
• honor
• listen
• climb
• half
• island
• talking
• design
• scratch
• tonight
• limb
• knot
• whistle
Spell 25 Spell words with prefixes re-, dis-, mis-, il
Practice adding prefixes to base words
• rewrite
• reappear
• recall
• recover
• rebuild
• dishonest
• disagree
• disappear
• disappoint
• disconnect
• disapprove
• misbehave
• misfortune
• misunderstand
• misspell
• misuse
• illegal
• illegible
Spell 26 Spell words with the /f/ sound
• paragraph
• trophy
• nephew
• enough
• cough
• fourth
• Friday
• physical
• roughest
• pharmacy
• fragile
• fluid
• briefly
• festival
• stuffed
• triumph
• telephone
• few
Spell 27 Spell words with the prefixes im, in, pre, and un
• imperfect
• impolite
• impatient
• improper
• inactive
• inconvenient
• incorrect
• inconsiderate
• preview
• prejudice
• prevent
• prefix
• prehistoric
• unable
• uncertain
• uncomfortable
• unaware
• ungrateful
Spell 28 Spell words with Green and Latin roots and affixes
• geology
• geometry
• geography
• geologist
• action
• enact
• transport
• import
• portable
• bicycle
• cyclone
• encyclopedia
• autograph
• automobile
• automatic
• autobiography
• telegraph
• photograph
Spell 29 Spell multisyllabic verbs
• destruct
• destruction
• describe
• description
• decorate
• decoration
• divide
• division
• administer
• administration
• populate
• population
• infect
• infection
• punctuate
• punctuation
• attend
• attention
Spell 30 Spell multisyllabic words
• multiply
• temperature
• vertical
• equation
• currency
• amphibian
• intersection
• environment
• agriculture
• frequency
• civilization
• manufacture
• characteristic
• atmosphere
• representative
• semicircle
• substitute
• technology