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 |
You might also be interested in these important spelling lists:
- Fifth Grade Curriculum Spelling Lists
- Fourth Grade Spelling Words
- Sixth Grade Spelling Words
- 100 Tricky Elementary Spelling Words
- 100 Home Spelling Words
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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!
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.
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!
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Don't miss my brand-new crosswords! I've written a collection of easy crosswords, and some more difficult ones, too.
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Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.
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