503 6th Grade Spelling Words List For School And Home!

Looking for a list of 6th grade spelling words? This huge list is perfect for spelling practice, activities and tests for your sixth graders!

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I’ve typed up a bunch of great sixth grade spelling words for you to use throughout the school year. These words are perfect for spelling activities, worksheets, spelling tests, and even spelling bees.

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After the regular list of words, I’ve added a ton of 7th grade spelling words to challenge your students.

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6th Grade Spelling Word Lists

Here are a bunch of spelling words. I hope these help you with your teaching or with help ing your child at home.

abolish
absence
accept
accident
accidentally
acquire
adequate
administration
admissible
adopt
advantage
adventure
adverb
advisor
again
aghast
agony
ailment
alchemy
algebra
aluminum
ambulance
ancient
another
answered
anxious
appearance
appetizer
appointment
approach
aptitude
arithmetic
artichoke
audience
autumn
aware
banquet
basis
beautifully
because
behind
beliefs
bicycle
bigger
blown
bough
bowling
bows
brokenhearted
buffaloes
building
burden
calendar
California
cannon
canyon
capable
capacity
catsup
caution
ceiling
cereal
certainly
champion
chiefs
choir
choose
chorus
civic
cleanse
clumsy
combination
comedy
comfortable
common
communist
community
complain
concentration
concern
connection
consider
constant
constitution
contagiour
conversation
cooperation
correct
costumes
cottage
coupon
cowboy
creative
creature
crept
crisis
crutch
crystal
crystallize
cuffs
culture
curious
dangerous
daylight
debris
decade
decision
defeat
defender
delicate
delivery
demonstrate
denominator
deny
department
departure
deposit
depth
descendant
descent
desecration
desserts
didn’t
disagreement
disastrous
discussion
distance
distributed
doing
doubt
earliest
echoes
edition
educate
effective
efforts
electricity
element
elevator
emergency
employer
emptiness
encouragement
encyclopedia
enlighten
entertainment
entire
entrance
envelope
equator
erupt
especially
establish
etiquette
everything
examine
example
excellent
excitement
exercise
existence
expect
experience
expert
expnesive
exterior
familiar
faucet
fierce
financial
fireproof
fishing
Florida
following
foreign
forgetting
forgiveness
forward
fossil
fraction
freight
frighten
fuel
further
gallon
garage
gasoline
gaze
generally
gesture
governor
graduation
grateful
grief
halves
hamburger
hangar
hanger
happiness
harmony
hasten
hasty
headache
heroes
history
honorable
horizon
horse
hula
humane
hunger
hyphen
icicles
ignore
imagination
imbalance
imitate
immediate
immediately
immigrant
immovable
immune
impatient
import
importance
impossible
impress
improvement
independence
infinite
ingredient
injury
innocent
inquire
instead
instruction
intermission
interview
intimidate
introduce
invisible
invitation
invite
involve
irresistible
jealous
journey
junior
knack
kneeling
knowledge
lawyer
league
legal
letters
liberate
liberty
linger
liquid
listening
literal
literature
loaves
location
longer
luggage
major
manager
manner
manor
marriage
married
massive
matter
meant
mechanic
medicine
mediocre
mention
miles
military
minus
minute
minute
mistaken
misunderstand
mixture
mourn
multiple
muscle
muscular
museum
musician
mute
myth
national
nationality
nature
nearby
negative
noisy
noticeable
novel
numerator
obtain
occur
official
ointment
operate
orientation
original
ourselves
outline
partial
passenger
patient
penalty
penguin
percent
perform
performance
perseverance
personal
persuade
photosynthesis
physical
piano
plumber
poem
poet
poetry
policy
pollute
pollution
positive
potatoes
practical
predict
prefer
pressure
prevent
principal
private
progress
project
pumpkins
punish
purchase
purse
pursue
quality
quartet
quiver
quizzes
quote
raccoon
radios
radius
rapid
ratio
reaction
realize
recently
recycle
reduce
referred
regardless
regular
rehearse
release
relief
relieve
rely
remarkable
remember
remembering
remind
remote
replacement
replied
reply
report
requirement
rescue
research
resident
resist
resource
resources
respectful
review
roam
routine
rumbling
rumor
rural
safety
sailor
salmon
salute
sandwich
satisfy
saucer
saucy
scarcely
scientific
scissors
sculptor
security
selection
senior
sensational
sense
sentence
separately
sequins
serious
session
shampoo
shelves
shorten
silent
simply
skateboard
sketch
skillful
smartest
solar
solemn
sought
spaghetti
sponge
spring
square
squawk
squeak
staggered
states
stood
storage
strain
strategy
strength
strive
struggle
student
studios
subtle
success
suggestion
summer
support
surrounded
sword
system
teammate
telephone
television
temperature
Tennessee
theme
themselves
theory
there’s
therefore
thicken
thousand
threat
thunderstorm
tomatoes
tongue
tornadoes
trophies
trouble
turtleneck
tutor
twenty
unbelievable
underneath
unite
vacuum
vague
vain
variety
vary
vault
vegetable
vein
violence
visible
vision
volleyball
waste
whether
who’s
whose
work
worst
would
wrestle
wrinkle
yield
young

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Challenge Words

Here is a list of 7th grade spelling words you can use to challenge your students!

compressor
delayed
dreadful
especially
damage
diamond
equip
extraordinary
culminate
descendant
episode
executive
concentrate
deodorant
economics
exchange
courage
deny
engineer
excellent
concentration
desirous
economy
expensive
conductor
diameter
either
extortion
confetti
digest
elementary
fabricate
control
dismissal
encircle
favorite
confident
discouraged
embarrass
fascinating
congratulations
dispersal
emotion
fiasco
consequently
distinguished
emphasize
deceive
disgraceful
erosion
fatigue
daughter
discipline
equipped
failure
content
dispose
employed
flagrant
consumer
doubt
employ
cousin
deficiency
envelope
eruption
copies
description
endurance
exhibit
computers
deliver
drummer
every
convict
destroyed
encyclopedia
extinguish
controlling
discourage
enclosing
familiar
culprit
desperate
equal
extinct
courtesy
delightful
enough
ethnic
crypt
democracy
environment
evident
controversy
dictionary
encounter
extremely
cringe
delicious

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 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

Here are some frequently asked questions about 6th grade spelling words.

What words should a 12 year old be able to spell?

A 12 year old should be able to spell the words continued, detrimental, ecology, fashion, grease, daughter, direction, errands, finished, harvest, insult, manageable, million, paint, position, referee, sandal, solve, stringent, thumb, universe, x-ray, and acoustics.

What are some spelling word games for 6th grade?

My students loved playing Sparkle. Each student says a letter of the spelling word. If they miss a letter, they’re out. You can also have your students draw picture of their spelling words or write their words with crayons.

You can make spelling fun for my students?

You can make spelling fun by doing a different activity for spelling practice. One day, my students would write their words with markers or colored pencils. Another day, they’re draw a picture using their words. Another day, they’d write a story with their words. We’d also play Sparkle with the spelling words.

How many spelling words for 6th grade?

Here are some spelling words for 6th grade: communication, dessert, distance, extravagant, fuel, imagine, journey, melody, natural, phrase, problem, result, section, station, supply, trilogy, various, , rising, sincerely, stopping, tasty, tumble, which, allowed, April, caught, possible, radio, saucer, situation, stunt, and tenant.