533 5th Grade Spelling Words For The Classroom!

Looking for a 5th grade spelling words list? Here is a list of 533 spelling words and challenge words to test your students!

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5th Grade Spelling Words List

Here is the list of fifth grade spelling words!

able
absent
achieve
acoustics
action
active
activity
actor
actually
addition
advertisement
advocate
afraid
Africa
aftermath
afternoon
afterthought
afterwards
agility
agreed
agreement
alternate
allowable
allowed
aloud
amendment
amount
amusement
ancestor
annual
anoint
another
apartment
apparel
appear
appliance
applicant
appoint
appointed
approve
April
archery
arrange
ashamed
assestant
attention
August
autumn
avenue
aware
awhile
awkward
baceria
beautiful
been
beetle
began
beginning
beige
bicycle
bottom
brace
breakable
breakfast
breathe
brilliant
bruise
business
calves
canter
capital
capitol
captain
carefully
cathedral
caught
cause
celebrate
century
chemical
chocolate
circle
city
climate
climb
climbed
coast
collar
column
comet
comic
commercial
communication
compact
company
compliant
condition
Connecticut
consider
consonant
constant
contestant
continent
continue
continued
copy
country
course
cousin
coward
crystal
cube
current
curtain
cute
daughter
daybreak
daytime
debatable
decided
decimal
defendant
delicious
delight
desert
design
desirable
dessert
details
determine
detrimental
devotion
dictionary
difference
different
difficult
direction
dirty
disappear
disappoint
discard
discover
disguise
dishonest
distance
distinct
distinguishable
disuse
division
does
dominant
duplex
duplicate
eager
eagle
easily
ecology
education
eighth
election
elements
empty
encourage
energy
enjoyment
equal
equation
errands
escape
exact
exactly
excellent
except
exchange
excitable
expect
explain
explode
express
extravagant
factor
factory
fashion
fault
favorite
fifteen
finally
financial
finished
flavor
Florida
forward
fought
fraction
freight
French
fuel
furniture
future
galaxy
gallop
gaseous
general
gopher
government
graceful
graph
grasp
grease
greatest
grown-ups
grudge
grumble
guest
guide
guillible
gyena
happened
happily
harvest
healthy
height
hesitate
hoarse
horizon
horrible
human
hundredth
hurry
idea
ignorant
imagine
impatient
include
increase
indeed
indicate
information
instant
instrument
insult
intention
interesting
inventor
irritate
island
jewel
jewelry
journey
jungle
killed
knives
known
laid
language
laughter
launch
lawyer
leather
length
level
limb
linen
lizard
located
locket
logya
lumber
magic
major
mammal
manageable
management
mansion
manufacture
material
matter
maybe
mayor
meanwhile
measure
medallion
medicinal
melody
melon
members
memorable
memories
mention
message
method
migration
million
millionth
Minnesota
minor
modern
moutain
music
mustard
natural
necessary
neither
newspaper
noodle
northern
notable
notebook
notice
noun
novel
numeral
object
observe
once
only
opposite
orphan
ostrich
ought
outside
oxygen
paid
paint
panel
paragraph
passive
pattern
pause
payment
perhaps
period
permit
petroleum
phone
phrase
picnic
pilgrim
pleasant
please
pleasure
plunge
plural
poison
position
possible
practice
practice
preferable
prepared
president
probably
problem
process
produce
program
promise
property
protection
provide
puzzle
quadruple
questionable
quickly
quietly
racial
radio
raise
rarely
rather
reached
ready
receive
recent
record
referee
region
relation
relax
rely
remain
remove
repay
repeat
report
represent
respond
result
reverent
rhythm
rising
rough
route
ruin
sacrificial
salad
sandal
saucer
scale
scent
schedule
science
secret
secretary
section
separate
service
settled
several
shadow
shelter
shoulder
shouted
shower
signal
similar
sincerely
single
situation
size
sleigh
slippery
smile
soar
soil
solidify
solution
solve
someone
southern
split
spoiled
sports
sprint
square
squeeze
stain
state
statement
station
steer
stomach
stopping
straight
straighten
strange
stream
stretched
stringent
stunt
succeed
sudden
suggest
suitable
suitcase
sunset
supply
suppose
sure
surface
surprise
surround
sweater
syllable
symbol
syrup
tablet
tangible
tasty
teaspoon
tenant
Tennessee
tenth
terrible
they
though
thoughtful
thousandth
thrown
thumb
tolerable
tornado
tortoise
toward
trace
traffic
trail
treasure
treatment
triangle
trinity
trilogy
triple
trouble
tumble
tunnel
turtle
type
umpire
understood
universe
unknown
until
unusual
usually
valley
value
vanish
various
vertical
very
virus
vocabulary
voyage
walrus
warn
weigh
weight
weird
western
which
whisper
whoever
whole
whose
wives
women
wonderful
wound
wreck
wrote
x-ray
yesterday

I’ve just compiled these words into one master list. You could compile them into your own spelling lists with different spelling patterns, spelling rules, double consonants, consonant blends, compound words, word parts, or word families.

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Challenge Words

Here are a bunch of words on the 6th grade level you can use to challenge your fifth graders!

continued
detrimental
ecology
fashion
grease
increase
level
memorable
object
pleasant
quietly
rising
sincerely
stopping
tasty
tumble
which
allowed
April
caught
communication
dessert
distance
extravagant
fuel
imagine
journey
melody
natural
phrase
problem
result
section
station
supply
trilogy
various
alternate
appear
carefully
coast
design
disappear
explode
Florida
idea
interesting
medallion
Minnesota
petroleum
practice
represent
scale
state
succeed
triangle
until
achieve
apparel
been
climbed
country
dirty
eighth
flavor
grown-ups
intention
linen
millionth
once
possible
radio
saucer
situation
stunt
tenant
unknown
whoever
advocate
apartment
breakfast
climb
daughter
direction
errands
finished
harvest
insult
manageable
million
paint
position
referee
sandal
solve
stringent
thumb
universe
x-ray
acoustics

Spelling Word Activities

Here are 14 fun activities for your students! They will love doing these different activities.

Scrambled Words: Unscramble the spelling words!
Definitions: Write as many definitions of the words as they know. This will help their vocabulary skills!
Rainbow Letters: Use a different colored pencil or crayon to write each letter of the word.
Spelling Word Pictures: Choose some words to draw pictures of. You get to choose how many pictures you’d like them to draw. Your students can draw the pictures at their own pace. Encourage them to use their imagination!
Invisible Words: Write the spelling words on a piece of paper with a white crayon. Then use markers to color over the spelling words. The spelling words will appear out of nowhere! Your students will love it.
Dice Spelling Words: List six of these activities on a piece of paper. Then have students roll the dice for each word and do what they rolled. For example, if they roll a three and three is rainbow letters, they get to write that word with rainbow letters.
Fun Letters: Have the students write their spelling words with tall letters, tiny letters, zigzag letters, swirly letters, and any other fun letters they can think of!
Crossword Puzzles: Have your students make up their own crossword puzzle for the spelling words. They’ll love it!
Word Search Puzzles: Let your students make their own word search puzzle. You can even have the students solve each other puzzles!
Online Spelling Games: There are a whole bunch of spelling games online your kids can do to practice too!
Colored Words: Write the spelling words using different colored pencils, crayons, or markers.
Spelling Word Pictures: Draw a picture, like a house or anything they’d like, using the spelling words. So instead of using lines to draw the object, they’ll write the spelling words.
Alphabetical Order: Write all of the spelling words in alphabetical order. Make sure they are in the correct order.
Sentences: Write each spelling word in a sentence. Bonus points if there’s more than one word in a sentence.

FAQs

What should a 5th grader be able to spell?

A 5th grader should be able to spell the words traffic, possible, please, pleasure, noun, novel, opposite, valley, lumber, lizard, shower, and schedule.

What are 10 spelling words for 5th graders?

Ten words 5th graders should be able to spell are traffic, possible, please, pleasure, noun, novel, opposite, valley, lumber, lizard, shower, and schedule

What words should an 11 year old be able to spell?

An 11 year old should be able to spell the words traffic, possible, please, pleasure, noun, novel, opposite, valley, lumber, lizard, shower, and schedule.

What words do fifth graders spell in Week 1?

In Week 1, fifth graders spell the words traffic, possible, please, pleasure, noun, novel, opposite, valley, lumber, lizard, shower, and schedule.