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Fourth Grade Spelling Words

4th Grade Spelling Words Chart

Here's our mammoth list of 300 fourth grade spelling words gleaned from a variety of sources, including textbooks and leading online resources.  

Remember that fourth graders are ready to work on building lots of compound words, adding prefixes and suffixes and nailing down tricky sets of homophones. Be sure to give them lots of practice in all of these areas! 


List of Fourth Grade Spelling Words

Printable version of our Fourth Grade Spelling Words

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NEW!  Fourth Grade Spelling Words & Activities for in-school or at-home use! You'll find 180 grade-level words arranged in 12 high-interest topics, including insects, music, detectives, U.S. states, frequently misspelled words, travel and more. A wide variety of engaging activities plus lots of extension activities help to boost learning, too!


Scroll through our list of 300 4th grade spelling lists, or skip ahead to other fourth grade spelling resources. 

Words 1- 100

against

agree

airport

alarm

alive

all right

alley

alphabet

although

always

angriest

angry

animal

answer

asleep

attack

aunt

banana

battle

beautiful

beauty

become

beggar

believe

belong

between

blanket

blood

bottle

bought

bounce

breath

bridge

broke

broken

brought

bubble

building

built

busy

button

buying

calf

camera

cardboard

caring

carrying

catch

center

certain

chance

charge

cheer

chicken

chief

choice

choose

chore

chose

circle

cities

clothing

coast

coin

comb

common

copying

corner

cottage

cotton

couch

cough

couldn’t

couple

cousin

cover

crayon

crime

crooked

crow

crowd

crumb

curl

dairy

damage

danger

dawn

deaf

dear

death

decide

degree

deliver

didn’t

dirty

disappear

dislike

divide

double

downstairs

Words 101-200

drain

drawer

earlier

earn

earth

easier

eighty

either

electric

engine

enough

evening

except

faint

false

famous

fear

feather

felt

fever

few

fifth

fifty

final

follow

forever

forgive

forty

fourth

fright

fruit

gain

garden

gasoline

gear

gentle

giant

glance

gold

grandfather

grandmother

groceries

grown

guard

handsome

happiest

he’ll

he’s

health

heard

hiking

holidays

honey

honor

hospital

hour

however

howl

hundred

hungry

hurry

husband

important

interest

invite

jacket

jaw

judge

juice

kindness

kitchen

kneel

knight

libraries

library

listen

lonely

loyal

machine

mailbox

meant

medal

middle

mirror

mistake

moment

monkey

movement

neighbor

neither

nickel

ninety

ninth

no one

nobody

o’clock

obeyed

odd

office

often

Words 201-300

paper

parent

paste

path

peaceful

pencil

perfect

picture

planet

playground

pleasing

police

powerful

proper

public

question

quiet

quilt

quit

quite

railroad

reach

ready

reason

remember

return

ridge

roast

roof

rough

round

ruler

safe

sauce

scrap

search

season

self

seventh

seventy

sharp

she’ll

she’s

shout

sidewalk

sigh

sign

simple

since

sink

sixth

sixty

sleeve

smooth

sneeze

soften

spare

special

squirrel

steal

steel

strange

studied

studying

style

suppose

tennis

thirty

thumb

tool

towel

tube

tuna

twenty

twice

uncle

understand

useful

useless

village

visit

wait

weather

weight

whenever

whether

women

wonder

wood

world

worried

wrist

worse

wouldn’t

written

yourself

zebra

zero

zipper

zoo

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FAQs

Q: What are some good fourth grade spelling words?

A: Here a few from our list of 300 4th grade spelling words: against, all right, although, angriest, beautiful, beggar, believe, breath, building, camera, cardboard, carrying, certain, chief, cousin, decide, disappear, easier, eighty, famous, fourth, gentle, groceries, honor, hospital, important, judge, kitchen, knight, lonely, loyal, machine, movement, neighbor, neither, o'clock, ninety, ninth, no one, office, peaceful, question, reason, remember, rough, sauce, squirrel, studying, tennis, useful, visit, weather, weight, worried, yourself, zero.

Q: How can fourth graders best practice new spelling words?

A: It's always best to PRESENT new spelling words in context. So be sure to read meaningful sentences, paragraphs, stories and articles featuring new spelling words. Likewise, ask students to USE words in context. Offer interesting writing prompts and reward students who write more than just a mundane sentence for each new word. Of course, some repetition may be needed to learn the actual spellings of words. But correct meaning should always accompany correct spelling. 

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Author Ann Richmond Fisher

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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