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Fifth Grade Spelling Words

Our list of fifth grade spelling words has many uses!

Parents, use this list to give your child an extra boost in spelling. Practice words that are easily confused (capital/capitol, desert/dessert) and words with the same spelling patterns (cause/pause). Together, find the tricky words used correctly in real-life situations. Talk about the words. Use them in everyday conversation. Write them on a home chalkboard, tablets or text them to one another!

Teachers, refer to this list when you're looking for words to use in your own worksheets, spelling games and other language activities. Remember these words will be about right for most students. For some, you will need to supplement with easier words from my fourth grade list. Or perhaps you'll need to add more challenging words from my sixth or seventh grade list. It's always up to you!

Students, get a jump on your learning by studying this word list. Be sure you know the meaning of each word you learn to spell.

List of Fifth Grade Spelling Words

Printable version of our Fifth Grade Spelling Words

action	actor	actually	addition	agreed
allowed	aloud	amendment	amount	amusement
annual	appointed	arrange	attention	awhile
beginning	bruise	business	calves	capital
capitol	captain	carefully	caught	cause
celebrate	century	chemical	chocolate	circle
climate	climbed	collar	column	company
condition	consider	consonant	constant	continent
continued	country	course	crystal	current
curtain	daughter	daytime	decided	decimal
delicious	desert	dessert	details	determine
dictionary	difference	different	difficult	direction
disappoint	division	eighth	election	elements
energy	enjoyment	equal	equation	errands
exact	except	expect	explain	explode
express	factory	fault	favorite	finally
finished	forward	fought	fraction	furniture
future	general	government	graceful	graph
grasp	grease	grown-ups	guest	guide
happened	happily	harvest	healthy	height
hoarse	human	idea	imagine	include
increase	indicate	information	instrument	intention
interesting	inventor	island	jewel	journey
jungle	knives	known	language	laughter
length	limb	located	lumber	major
mammal	manufacture	material	mayor	measure
melody	members	memories	message	method
million	minor	modern	mountain	music
natural	necessary	neither	newspaper	northern
notebook	notice	noun	numeral	object
observe	opposite	orphan	ought	outside
oxygen	paid	paint	paragraph	pattern
pause	payment	perhaps	period	permit
phone	phrase	pleasant	pleasure	plural
poison	position	possible	practice	prepared
president	probably	problem	process	produce
program	promise	property	protection	provide
puzzle	quickly	quietly	radio	raise
rarely	rather	reached	receive	record
region	relax	remain	remove	repay
repeat	report	represent	respond	result
rhythm	rising	ruin	salad	sandal
scale	scent	schedule	science	section
separate	service	settled	several	shadow
shelter	shoulder	shouted	shower	signal
similar	sincerely	single	size	slippery
soar	soil	solution	solve	southern
split	spoiled	sports	square	squeeze
stain	state	statement	station	steer
stomach	stopping	straight	straighten	stream
stretched	suggest	suitcase	sunset	supply
sure	surface	surprise	surround	sweater
syllable	syrup	tablet	tasty	teaspoon
terrible	though	thoughtful	thrown	tornado
toward	traffic	trail	treasure	treatment
triangle	trouble	tunnel	type	understood
unknown	usually	value	various	warn
weigh	weight	weird	western	whisper
whoever	whole	whose	wives	women
wonderful	wound	wreck	x-ray	yesterday

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Fifth Grade Spelling Words and Activities from www.spelling-words-well.com

Fifth Grade Spelling Words and Activities will provide excelling spelling practice with 240 grade-level words across 12 topical units. Lots of different activities are provided to make learning enjoyable. Learn more and download free sample pages here.

5th Grade Vocabulary Words - BIG list of 200 grade 5 vocabulary words!!! 100 are arranged in ten categories to engage your students in topics such as sports, adjectives, people, places, social studies, fruits and more! How about a game of hilarious racquetball on a tundra with a cartographer? This list is a great supplement to the list of fifth grade spelling words.

More Fifth Grade Spelling Resources

5th Grade Spelling Bee Words - Prepare your child for a spelling bee competition with this word list.

Croaky Meets the Plumber and Extra Letters Worksheets : Students chose the correctly spelled words to complete an interesting story or eliminate extra letters to solve a word puzzle.

Fifty-Fifty - Fun word game for kids. Older students earn points as they engage in word play and spelling fun.

Don't miss our AnyWord spelling practice series which you're going to love! Students can insert almost any set of spelling words into the pages to complete puzzles, writing prompts and even partner games!

Fifth Grade Writing Prompts

I've written two sets of engaging writing prompts, aligned with our fifth grade spelling word list. Use these stimulating prompts anytime throughout the year for fun spelling and writing practice!

tall, thin teacher with a long purple dress, big glasses, and a ruler

Set #1 - Twelve engaging prompts featuring a magic frog act, a birthday surprise, Different Day and nine more!

Set #2 - Twelve more writing prompts for 5th grade, featuring a sneaky mouse in the principal's office, mysterious bubbles and more.

smiling fifth grade girl sitting at her desk

Free Brain Teasers - Take a look at our extensive collection of spelling brain teasers. Build critical thinking skills while providing spelling practice. We have teasers at two levels.

Spelling Homework - 40 ideas to practice fifth grade spelling words, or words for any grade!

Cartoon of a broadcast of the evening news

Spelling Quizzes from the Evening News - 4 fun spelling exercises. Can your students find and correct all the mistakes in these news reports?

Don't miss my brand-new crosswords! I've written a collection of easy crosswords, and some more difficult ones, too.

Spelling Bee Games - Try one of our new Silent Spelling Bee variations. A fun--and quiet--twist on a classic game!

Another Spelling Bee Game - Students step up to victory as they help their team advance in this fun new game.

See our entire collections of Spelling Word Games and Spelling Worksheets!

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Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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