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.
Teachers, refer to this list when you're looking for words to use in your own worksheets, spelling games and other language activities.
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.
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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