Spelling Bee Word List

1st and 2nd grade

1. about

2. add

3. address

4. after

5. afraid

6. always

7. another

8. ate

9. ask

10. bake

11. baseball

12. before

13. begin

14. best

15. body

16. break

17. bright

18. brown

19. cake

20. camping

21. catch

22. change

23. child

24. clothes

25. clown

26. computer

27. cookies

28. date

29. diamond

30. dinosaur

31. dress

32. draw

33. Earth

34. egg

35. eggplant

36. eight

37. erase

38. excited

39. fable

40. feel

41. fight

42. fireplace

43. first

44. friend

45. get

46. gift

47. give

48. glad

49. great

50. habitat

51. hair

52. half

53. hammer

54. handsome

55. head

56. help

57. hope

58. inside

59. invite

60. insect

61. island

62. it´s

63. jail

64. January

65. joke

66. joyful

67. juice

68. jungle

69. keep

70. key

71. kicked

72. king

73. kind

74. late

75. laugh

76. leaf

77. lemon

78. light

79. like

80. little

81. make

82. maple

83. March

84. matter

85. milkshake

86. most

87. mouse

88. night

89. nine

90. noisy

91. nose

92. nut

93. October

94. obey

95. office

96. old

97. owl

98. perfect

99. people

100. place

101. plane

102. pictures

103. pool

104. queen

105. quickly

106. quiet

107. radio

108. rain

109. read

110. rectangle

111. ring

112. root

113. ruled

114. school

115. share

116. save

117. sled

118. soft

119. spent

120. spring

121. square

122. student

123. talk

124. tent

125. thank

126. today

127. triangle

128. ugly

129. under

130. upon

131. us

132. use

133. vase

134. view

135. visit

136. wait

137. want

138. weather

139. went

140. wing

141. witch

142. without

143. year

144. yellow

145. yogurt

146. young

147. yourself

148. zebra

149. zigzag

150. zoo

CHALLENGE WORDS

1. airport

2. birthday

3. bus station

4. celebrate

5. children

6. enjoy

7. favorite

8. grandchildren

9. herself

10. imagine

11. mammals

12. match

13. octopus

14. opposite

15. ready

16. resource

17. Saturday

18. scared

19. subtract

20. Spaghetti

21. together

22. twenty- three

23. umbrella

24. yesterday

25. weigh

26. Wednesday

Spelling Bee Word List 3rd and 4th grade

1. address

2. advice

3. after

4. against

5. airport

6. amazing

7. ancient

8. ant

9. anthem

10. aunt

11. autumn

12. bad

13. balcony

14. balloon

15. begin

16. behind

17. better

18. between

19. bosses

20. bounced

21. bright

22. broken

23. burrows

24. camping

25. cannot

26. careful

27. carries

28. cents

29. chain

30. children

31. circus

32. claw

33. clean

34. climate

35. close

36. country

37. dark

38. dentist

39. desk

40. detect

41. different

42. dish

43. distance

44. diverse

45. dollar

46. donations

47. dress

48. drink

49. echo

50. energy

51. example

52. excited

53. expect

54. fall

55. family

56. faucet

57. February

58. feeding

59. fireworks

60. flower

61. fluffy

62. fly

63. formal

64. friend

65. giggled

66. gymnast

67. ham

68. healthy

69. heat

70. hen

71. holiday

72. homework

73. horseback

74. iced tea

75. icicles

76. immigrant

77. inflation

78. intruders

79. island

80. jog

81. jumping

82. kept

83. kicked

84. kilometers

85. kitchen

86. knit

87. leave

88. lemonade

89. lieutenant

90. library

91. loud

92. lovable

93. loyal

94. machine

95. magnet

96. mailbox

97. many

98. map

99. marvelous

100. mayonnaise

101. might

102. mistake

103. mysterious

104. necessary

105. nest

106. never

107. nice

108. nickel

109. number

110. occasion

111. office

112. oxygen

113. pail

114. paint

115. pan

116. payment

117. peeking

118. picnic

119. pollution

120. pool

121. population

122. pray

123. pretty

124. protection

125. proud

126. pry

127. push

128. quietly

129. reptiles

130. republic

131. response

132. river

133. rodent

134. satellite

135. Saturday

136. scientist

137. scrambled

138. sent

139. shadow

140. sharp

141. shelter

142. sight

143. skin

144. sky

145. slept

146. small

147. smell

148. snail

149. soft

150. sometimes

151. sound

152. spaghetti

153. spring

154. stamp

155. statement

CHALLENGE WORDS

1. artichoke

2. difficulty

3. masquerade

4. still

5. suitcases

6. tambourine

7. teaspoons

8. them

9. tiger

10. tournament

11. trick

12. tunnel

13. uneven

14. unique

15. useful

16. visors

17. waffle

18. wash

19. Wednesday

20. well

21. wet

22. which

23. why

24. writer

25. yawned

Spelling Bee Word List 5th and 6th grade

1. abstain

2. accommodate

3. accouter

4. achievement

5. acolyte

6. acquaintance

7. amnesty

8. amusement

9. annoyance

10. afterthought

11. ailment

12. alchemy

13. algebra

14. aluminum

15. amazement

16. ancient

17. anoint

18. appreciate

19. approval

20. approve

21. arise

22. ascend

23. associate

24. athlete

25. attack

26. attend

27. attorney

28. audible

29. autumn

30. available

31. awful

32. awkward

33. bachelor

34. baker

35. banker

36. barbecue

37. beginner

38. believe

39. biography

40. bomb

41. border

42. boundary

43. breakfast

44. breathe

45. brightly

46. burglar

47. button

48. cognizant

49. colleague

50. consequence

51. considerable

52. contrary

53. controversial

54. controversy

55. conveyance

56. corporal

57. cortege

58. cemetery

59. centigram

60. channel

61. character

62. chestnut

63. circle

64. climb

65. coffee

66. colony

67. comfortable

68. common

69. competition

70. concern

71. condition

72. confirm

73. conscience

74. conscious

75. constant

76. constellation

77. construct

78. contemporary

79. contrary

80. creator

81. creditor

82. crouton

83. crystal

84. crystallize

85. currency

86. curtain

87. customer

88. cycle

89. damage

90. daughter

91. daylight

92. daybreak

93. deceive

94. deficiency

95. deficient

96. disinherit

97. determination

98. discursive

99. destination

100. detach

101. detail

102. devotion

103. directory

104. dirty

105. disappear

106. disapprove

107. discover

108. division

109. dominant

110. dormitory

111. eager

112. earnest

113. echo

114. edible

115. education

116. efficient

117. election

118. emotional

119. empty

120. encourage

121. entertain

122. environment

123. equal

124. escapade

125. establish

126. exactly

127. excel

128. exchange

129. exhale

130. exhibit

131. exist

132. expert

133. extra

134. extravagant

135. facility

136. factual

137. fasten

138. feather

139. feature

140. fertile

141. fiction

142. financial

143. foolish

144. forever

145. fortress

146. fragile

147. friction

148. frightening

149. fruit

150. fuel

151. furious

152. furniture

153. garbage

154. giant

155. government

156. grateful

157. guitar

158. handle

159. hardware

160. health

161. heart

162. heavily

163. helmet

164. holy

165. honorary

166. hoping

167. household

168. inking

169. instinctively

170. jeopardy

171. jewelry

172. judgment

173. junction

174. junior

175. kindness

176. kitten

177. knead

178. knives

179. knowledge

180. leather

181. level

182. lightning

183. limestone

184. linen

185. location

186. locket

187. lumber

188. machinery

189. magniloquent

190. malady

191. Massachusetts 192. mathematician

193. meant

194. melodious

195. mercenary

196. meticulous

197. minimize

198. music

199. naive

200. narrative

201. nature

202. necessary

203. neither

204. nickel

205. notify

206. obedience

207. oblige

208. operation

209. option

210. orchid

211. outfit

212. overrule

213. owner

214. paradoxical

215. pardon

216. partner

217. passenger

218. pastime

219. pavilion

220. perfect

221. perforated

222. pediatrician

223. peerless

224. penalty

225. Pennsylvania

226. Philadelphia

227. picnicking

228. prestigious

229. privilege

230. procrastinate

231. propeller

232. propel

233. property

234. raffish

235. sacrilegious

236. scandalized

237. taboo

238. technological

239. threat

240. uncanny

241. unduly 242. unemployment

243. vertigo

244. vessel

245. vicissitudes

246. vigilant

247. wallow

CHALLENGE WORDS

1. abominable

2. attendance

3. achievement

4. amateur

5. beacon

6. carriage

7. embarrassed

8. driveway

9. dwarfed

10. essential

11. fascination 12. telecommunication

13. discrepancy 14. misunderstanding

15. fluorescent

16. unbelievable

17. precipitation

18. adventurous

19. approximately

20. hilariously

21. hospitable

22. humanitarian

23. intransitive

24. invertebrates

25. irritable

26. rebellious

27. sarcastic

28. twitching

29. Transylvania

30. unreadable

Spelling Bee Word List

7th, 8th and 9th grade

1. abacus

2. abalone

3. abandon

4. abattoir

5. abbreviate

6. abhorrent

7. abominable

8. abomination

9. aborigine

10. abrasive

11. absence

12. absenteeism

13. baboon

14. backstage

15. bacterium

16. bagel

17. baggage

18. balaclava

19. banquet

20. barbecue

21. baritone

22. beautify

23. behaviour/

behavior

24. carbohydrate

25. caricature

26. carnivorous

27. carpenter

28. cartography

29. casserole

30. casualty

31. catalogue

32. catastrophe

33. category

34. caution

35. ceasefire

36. daring

37. debauchery

38. debris

39. debutante

40. decapitate

41. decathlon

42. deceive

43. deception

44. decibel

45. deciduous

46. defeasance

47. defeasible

48. eccentric

49. economic

50. ecosystem

51. ecstatic

52. effervescent

53. egocentric

54. egregious

55. electrify

56. elementary

57. eloquent

58. emaciated

59. embarrass

60. fabricate

61. facetious

62. facsimile

63. factorize

64. factious

65. failure

66. fantasy

67. fascinate

68. fatigue

69. faucet

70. favorite

71. favoritism

72. gallant

73. gangrene

74. gargantuan

75. garniture

76. garrulous 77. gastroenterology

78. gaudy

79. genetics

80. generosity

81. genuine

82. gestation

83. ghetto

84. hemorrhage

85. halitosis

86. hallucinate

87. haphazard

88. harass

89. harbor

90. haughty

91. haulage

92. havoc

93. hazardous

94. hereditarian

95. heroine

96. hesitate

97. illegible

98. illustrate

99. illustration

100. imaginary

101. imbue

102. imitation

103. immediate

104. immensely

105. imminent

106. immobilize

107. immunology

108. impeachment

109. jeopardize

110. jewellery

111. juvenile

112. journalist

113. journey

114. jubilant

115. judgement

116. Judaism

117. Jupiter

118. jurisdiction

119. justice

120. justify

121. juvenescence

122. kangaroo

123. karaoke

124. kennel

125. keyboard

126. kidnap

127. kindergarten

128. kitchenette

129. kleptomania

130. knowledge

131. knuckle

132. laboratory

133. labyrinth

134. lieutenant

135. liquescent

136. liquorice

137. literature

138. luggage

139. machinist

140. maelstrom

141. maggot

142. magistrate

143. magnanimous

144. magnetism

145. majesty

146. majorette

147. malevolent

148. malfeasance

149. malicious

150. malnutrition

151. naïve

152. narcissism

153. nasogastric

154. nauseous

155. nebulous

156. necessity

157. neighbor

158. neophyte

159. nepotism

160. Neptune

161. neuroscience

162. newspaper

163. nibble

164. obedience

165. obelisk

166. obituary

167. oblivious

168. obnoxious

169. obscene

170. obscure

171. obsequious

172. obstacle

173. obstetrician

174. obstreperous

175. obtuse

176. obvious

177. pediatrics

178. paleontology

179. pamphlet

180. pandemonium

181. paralysis

182. paranoia

183. parasite

184. parliament

185. parquetry

186. parsimony

187. patriarchy

188. quadrant

189. quadruple

190. quarrel

191. quartzite

192. querulous

193. questionnaire

194. quintile

195. quiver

196. quotation

197. ransack

198. rapturous

199. raspberry

200. reassess

201. recognition

202. recommendation

203. reconciliation

204. reconnaissance

205. recuperate

206. recusant

207. redemption

208. refreshments

209. reincarnation

210. relaxation

211. religious

212. relinquish

213. remarkable

214. therapeutic

215. thesaurus

216. thorough

217. thyroid

218. tiptoe

219. toddler

220. torment

221. tornado

222. tortoise

223. tournament

224. traditional

225. tranquil

226. transgress

227. transmit

228. transparent

229. transplant

230. trapezium

231. traumatize

232. treasurer

233. tribulation

234. triceratops

235. triumphant

236. ubiety

237. ubiquitous

238. unanimous

239. unappetizing

240. unceremonious 241. uncomfortable

242. uncountable 243. unequivocally

244. unobtrusive

245. unscrupulous

246. upholstery

247. utensil

248. victim

249. vigorous

250. violence

251. visual

252. visualize

253. vitamin

254. vociferous

255. voluminous

256. vulture

257. voyage

258. vulgar

259. vulnerable

260. wages

261. waitress

262. wealthy

263. Wednesday

264. wedding

265. weird

266. welcome

267. whisper

268. wilderness

269. wintry

270. worship

271. xenophobia

272. yachtsman

273. yeasty

274. yield

275. youthful

276. zeal

277. zenith

278. zigzag

279. zombie

CHALLENGE WORDS

1. indelible

2. muttonchops

3. impregnable

4. redundancy

5. bronchitis

6. haberdashery

7. felicitously

8. treacle

9. attenuated

10. valise

11. dissertation

12. metallurgy

13. emaciated

14. corrugated

15. amethyst

16. chivalrous

17. cyanide

18. galette

19. noisome

20. ligatures

21. grenadier

22. espionage

23. rapacious

24. prevaricate

25. acclamations

26. fascist

27. asseveration

28. balustrades

29. flambeau

30. ambuscade

31. fuchsia

32. proboscis

33. exordium

34. ichor

35. tergiversation

36. trenchant

37. courteous

38. catacombs

39. affidavit

40. aphorism

41. sumptuous

42. glutinous

43. diffidence

44. wastrels

45. portentously

46. antecedents

47. chloroform

48. docile

49. homo sapiens

50. eviscerated