Spelling Word Lists
In each year, children must learn a number of statutory word spellings. The lists here include words for each year group and can be used alongside other home learning activities.
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Choose a year group using the buttons above - the statutory word lists for the year group you select will appear here.
You can use these word lists as a study tool. Read each word to your child and ask them to spell it for you. If your child spells the word correctly, tap the word to highlight it as complete. Once your child has attemped all words, review with them any words that haven't been spelled correctly (words that are not highlighted).
Year 3 Spelling List
Year 3 Word list 1
Appear
Arrive
Build
Circle
Consider
Describe
Early
Earth
Eight
Eighth
February
Fruit
Group
Guide
History
Important
Learn
Learning
Length
Material
Often
Potatoes
Probably
Question
Regular
Sentence
Special
Year 3 Word list 2
Address
Answer
Bicycle
Breath
Breathe
Busy
Business
Calendar
Complete
Continue
Different
Difficult
Extreme
Forward
Guard
Heard
Heart
Height
Imagine
Natural
Perhaps
Promise
Purpose
Suppose
Surprise
Weight
Year 4 Spelling List
Year 4 Word List 1
Actual
Actually
Century
Certain
Decide
Enough
Exercise
Famous
Favourite
Grammar
Increase
Interest
Island
Library
Mention
Notice
Opposite
Ordinary
Popular
Position
Possible
Remember
Separate
Strange
Strength
Year 4 Word List 2
Accident
Accidentally
Although
Believe
Caught
Centre
Disappear
Experience
Experiment
Knowledge
Medicine
Minute
Naughty
Occasion
Occasionally
Particular
Peculiar
Possess
Posession
Pressure
Quarter
Recent
Reign
Therefore
Though
Thought
Through
Various
Woman
Women
Year 5 Spelling List
Year 5 Word List 1
Achieve
Aggressive
Ancient
Attached
Available
Average
Bruise
Category
Competition
Develop
Dictionary
Embarrass
Especially
Excellent
Forty
Frequently
Identity
Language
Marvellous
Occupy
Occur
Persuade
Queue
Stomach
Vegetable
Year 5 Word List 2
Accompany
Awkward
Cemetery
Desperate
Familiar
Immediate
Immediately
Leisure
Lightning
Muscle
Necessary
Persuade
Physical
Recognise
Rhyme
Rhythm
Shoulder
Signature
Sincere
Sincerely
Soldier
Suggest
Symbol
System
Thorough
Variety
Vehicle
Year 6 Spelling List
Year 6 Word List 1
Accommodate
Apparent
Appreciate
Bargain
Committee
Communicate
Correspond
Curiosity
Convenience
Definite
Determined
Disastrous
Equip
Equipped
Equipment
Explanation
Individual
Interfere
Interrupt
Opportunity
Programme
Relevant
Sacrifice
Secretary
Temperature
Twelfth
Yacht
Year 6 Word List 2
Amateur
According
Conscience
Conscious
Criticise
Critic
Controversy
Environment
Exaggerate
Existence
Foreign
Government
Guarantee
Harass
Hindrance
Mischievous
Neighbour
Nuisance
Parliament
Prejudice
Privilege
Profession
Pronunciation
Recommend
Restaurant
Sufficient