7th Grade Spelling Words
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.
7th Grade Spelling Words:
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 |
| descendent | 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 |
More 7th Grade Spelling Resources
- 7th Grade Spelling Worksheets
- 7th Grade Vocabulary Activities
- Wacky Weather Worksheet
- 8th Grade Vocabulary and Spelling Practice
- 9th grade Vocabulary and Spelling Practice
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Difficult English Spelling Word Lists
- More 7th-9th Grade Resources
- Our list of 50 sets of homonyms with clear definitions and examples
Please check out our 6th grade spelling resources, too!
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