Our 7th grade spelling words will help you target your spelling instruction and practice. By seventh grade, students should have a strong foundation in the basics.
But many students may still need to review and strengthen their skills in some areas, including adding suffixes such as -able, -ible, commonly confused words, frequently misspelled words, and new vocabulary words.
Here's our list of 300 7th grade spelling words, selected from several popular resources. Please note that this list offers a general guideline. Your curriculum and the needs of your students may vary.
Printable version of 7th grade spelling words
abandon | abbreviation | absence | absolutely |
absorb | abundant | accessible | accompanied |
accomplishment | accurate | achievement | acres |
adequate | adjustable | admit | admittance |
advice | advise | afghan | alternate |
alternative | amusement | analysis | analyze |
ancestor | anniversary | appreciate | artificial |
assistance | association | athlete | atmosphere |
attendance | authority | bacteria | bagel |
baggage | benefited | benefiting | bicycle |
biscuit | bizarre | boulevard | boundary |
bouquet | brilliant | brochure | bulletin |
bureau | campaign | cancellation | candidate |
capable | capital | capitol | category |
celery | cemetery | changeable | chaperone |
character | cinnamon | civilize | commercial |
committed | committee | commotion | companion |
competent | competition | complement | complex |
compliment | compressor | concentrate | concentration |
conductor | confetti | congratulations | consequently |
controlling | cringe | culminate | culprit |
deceive | delayed | democracy | deodorant |
descendant | description | diameter | diamond |
discourage | disgraceful | dismissal | distinguished |
dreadful | economics | economy | elementary |
embarrass | emotion | emphasize | encircle |
enclosing | encounter | endurance | engineer |
environment | episode | erosion | eruption |
evident | exchange | executive | exhibit |
expensive | extinct | extinguish | extraordinary |
extremely | fabricate | failure | fascinating |
fatigue | flagrant | foreign | forfeit |
frequently | fundamental | genuine | ghetto |
gossiping | gradual | graffiti | grammar |
grievance | guarantee | harass | havoc |
heroic | hesitate | horrify | hospital |
humid | humility | hygiene | identical |
idle | idol | illegal | illustration |
imaginary | immediately | immobilize | impossibility |
inconvenient | incredible | individual | infamous |
influence | informant | inhabit | inherit |
innocence | innocent | instructor | intelligent |
interruption | introduction | involvement | irate |
irresistible | jealousy | judgment | juvenile |
kettle | knitting | laboratory | language |
legibly | liquidation | management | maneuver |
media | mileage | miniature | misbehaved |
morale | mortgage | movement | murmur |
musician | mysterious | negotiate | nervous |
nuisance | nurture | oases | oasis |
obedient | obstacle | obviously | occasion |
ordinarily | ordinary | organization | pamphlet |
panic | panicked | panicky | parallel |
paralysis | paralyze | penicillin | pedestrian |
phantom | pheasant | phrase | politely |
popular | precipitation | principal | principle |
privilege | procedure | pronunciation | psychology |
puny | qualified | qualifying | quotation |
raspberry | reasonable | receipt | receiving |
recipe | recognition | recommend | recruit |
reddest | reprimand | resigned | restaurant |
rotten | sandwich | scarcity | scenery |
secretary | securing | significance | simile |
sincerely | sincerity | situation | skeptical |
slumber | smudge | solemn | souvenir |
spacious | specific | stationary | stationery |
statistics | subscription | substitute | superintendent |
supervisor | supposedly | threatening | tolerate |
tongue | tournament | tragedy | traitor |
transferred | transferring | transmitted | traveled |
traveling | unfortunately | uniform | university |
unnecessary | valuable | various | vehicle |
version | vertical | victim | vigorously |
violation | visualize | volcano | voyage |
wealthy | weapon | wheeze | wilderness |
Please check out our 6th grade spelling resources, too!
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