Third Grade Spelling Words

Our list of 200 third grade spelling words will keep your students busy! Teachers and parents alike can use these words for oral and written practice, for spelling games and worksheets.

This list of 3rd grade spelling words is just a launching point. You'll want to practice other words with similar spelling patterns and
word endings.

List of Third Grade Spelling Words

Printable List of Third Grade Spelling Words

about	across	afraid	afternoon	age
ago	almost	also	anyone	anything
balloon	basket	bean	bear	behind
birthday	blind	body	born	boxes
bread	breakfast	brush	build	buses
butter	carries	caught	change	cheese
cherry	circus	classes	clear	climb
clown	color	coming	crawl	crazy
cries	dinner	doctor	doesn't	dollar
done	driving	early	easy	everyone
everything	eyes	finish	flies	foil
food	forgot	Friday	front	funny
gift	grinned	guess	half	happen
heard	heart	heavy	hello	himself
horse	hurt	I'll	I'm	I've
isn't	it's	kept	key	knee
knew	know	lamb	laugh	law
leave	left	life	lift	lived
lose	love	mark	match	maybe
meal	meat	meet	merry	Monday
more	morning	mouse	mouth	move
near	never	newspaper	noise	none
once	other	outside	own	paint
park	past	penny	picnic	piece
point	prize	push	queen	quickly
raised	really	riding	river	rode
roll	roses	rule	running	sail
sale	Saturday	school	scratch	scream
serve	sew	shelf	shiny	shopping
should	sitting	skinned	sky	slept
smiling	soft	someone	something	speak
spread	spring	stairs	stopped	straight
street	stretch	string	strong	suit
summer	Sunday	tenth	that's	thick
threw	throw	Thursday	tiny	today
together	tooth	touch	town	tries
trouble	true	Tuesday	turn	until
used	voice	walk	warm	we'll
Wednesday	whole	window	without	won't
wore	wrong	wrote	young	you're

You may also be interested in these lists:

2nd Grade Spelling Words

4th Grade Spelling Words

100 Tricky Elementary Spelling Words

100 Home Spelling Words

More Third Grade Spelling Resources

3rd Grade Spelling Bee Words - Prepare your child for a spelling bee competition with this word list.

Third Grade Worksheets - Give your students practice with important words with our Calendar Clues worksheet, and lots more!

Third graders are ready to work independently, and will probably enjoy our Mystery in the Attic spelling worksheet.

Free Spelling Worksheets - Can You Spell Well?: If students correctly identify the misspelled words, they'll shade the page to reveal in interesting word.

Spelling fun: Puzzlers and brain teasers - Play these on the board with the whole class or use paper and pencil at home for some critical thinking and spelling fun! Activities work with lots of words for lots of ages.

Compound Word Wizards - Whole class  or large-group activity for practicing compound  words.

Double the Fun - To double or not to double the final consonant when adding a suffix? Another great game for spelling fun! 

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. 

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