Fourth Grade Spelling Words
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
| 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 | copy | 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 |
| 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 | gather |
| gentle | giant | glance | gold | grandfather |
| grandmother | groceries | grown | guard | handsome |
| happiest | he'll | he's | health | heard |
| hiking | holiday | 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 |
| 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 | wife | wonder | wood | world |
| worried | wrist | worse | wouldn't | written |
| yourself | zebra | zero | zipper | zoo |
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I've written two sets of engaging writing prompts, aligned with our 4th grade spelling word list. Use these stimulating prompts anytime throughout the year for fun spelling and writing practice!
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independently, and will probably enjoy
our Mystery in the Attic
spelling worksheet.
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FAQs
Q: What are some good fourth grade spelling words?
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?
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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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.
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