5th grade spelling words updated list 2020
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Here's a 5th grade spelling words list of 300 new words for your 5th graders that'll boost their confidence, and get them speaking at a more advanced level. You could also use this as a 5th grade spelling words worksheet.
Here are 5th grade spelling words common core
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
If that's not enough to get your 5th graders up there, here's a word bank of extra words that will do just the trick in keeping them ever so active.
rough
grudge
stunt
thumb
once
another
does
trouble
cousin
began
oxygen
copy
very
until
umpire
sudden
which
city
afraid
explain
payment
sleigh
laid
raise
straight
freight
height
they
favorite
April
able
radio
station
relation
daybreak
trace
fifteen
referee
eager
easily
ready
please
ecology
maybe
been
only
universe
future
communicate
beautiful
unusual
cute
cube
fuel
adventure
cinquain
proverb
trait
stress
salutation
prose
lyric
limerick
haiku
characterization
context
drama
entertain
euphemism
imperative
interrogative
pamphlet
repetition
source
symbolism
usage
variable
claim
schedule
root
pitch
mystery
diagram
imperative
We've also got compound words for your 5th graders to spell
earthquake
countdown
candlestick
barefoot
bathrobe
classroom
fingernail
roommate
dashboard
overdue
breakfast
shipwreck
tombstone
wildlife
guardrail
suitcase
surfboard
tiptoe
lighthouse
chairperson
Here are some extra words they'll find familiar in other subjects.
brazen
mighty
conquer
fame
Greek
harbor
beacon
astride
torch
limb
expression
equation
evaluate
pattern
equivalent
inequality
relationship
forms
variable
resistor
electron
battery
terminal
positive
electric
negative
circuit
electromagnet
electricity
consumer
demand
costs
economy
specialization
trade
competition
barter
export
consumer
comic
ostrich
Connecticut
insult
grumble
gallop
hurry
distinct
contestant
defendant
assistant
brilliant
compliant
extravagant
ignorant
consonant
applicant
migration
route
trace
design
bruise
awkward
picnic
bicycle
triple
trilogy
trinity
duplicate
quadruple
unicycle
duplex
uniform
quartet
quadrant
octave
rhythm
cadence