5th Grade Spelling Bee Words
Are you a teacher looking for some 5th grade spelling bee words to use in your next classroom competition? Or perhaps you're a parent or student trying to "study ahead" on some typical fifth grade spelling words. Either way, this list of 100 carefully-selected spelling bee words should help!
We also have spelling bee lists for lots of other grades, too
More than half of the words here come from our list of 300 fifth grade spelling words. The remaining words come from outside sources or from more challenging word lists. I've arranged the words from easiest to most difficult. Use the words, as is, from this web page. Or for your convenience, use this printable list of 5th grade spelling bee words.
1. acre
2. climbed
3. active
4. clamp
5. bottom
6. closet
7. shower
8. cardboard
9. signal
10. claim
11. alert
12. solid
13. pickle
14. braid
15. borrow
16. castle
17. meadow
18. clumsy
19. addition
20. postage
21. jewel
22. spider
23. eaten
24. honest
25. actually
26. coffee
27. limit
28. energy
29. cabbage
30. harvest
31. grease
32. altitude
33. idea
34. healthy
35. agenda
36. fault
37. annoying
38. eraser
39. practice
40. breathe
41. doubt
42. collar
43. amusement
44. fought
45. jungle
46. knives
47. reign
48. microphone
49. radio
50. expect
51. buried
52. awaken
53. desert
54. wherefore
55. information
56. careless
57. garage
58. oxygen
59. century
60. pearl
61. dozen
62. tasty
63. science
64. furniture
65. instrument
66. ourselves
67. factory
68. swollen
69. government
70. nectarine
71. cruise
72. opposite
73. daughter
74. syrup
75. arrival
76. create
77. nourish
78. celebration
79. unusual
80. dictionary
81.
vineyard
82. ballerina
83. biography
84. worthwhile
85. decided
86. capsule
87. division
88. straighten
89. continent
90. delicious
91. difference
92. accumulation
93. guarantee
94. forfeit
95. irresistible
96. receipt
97. solemn
98. inconvenient
99. ultimatum
100. souvenir
You may wish to adjust our list for your specific group of students. Feel free to use additional easier words, or insert some more difficult ones to challenge your more advanced students. You can find more difficult spelling bee words in our 6th grade and 7th grade lists.
You may also enjoy this list of 50 Hard Spelling Bee Words and Definitions.
Important Tips to Practice Spelling Words
1. Give students lots of practice in oral spelling before competitions. Ask students to spell words frequently aloud, even from their seats, for a bit of "performance" practice.
2. Ask students to come to the front of the room and WRITE words correctly on the board. While this is not the same as oral spelling, it still provides practice in spelling front of others. It helps kids to get used to public spelling.
These first two tips are great "5-minute fillers" to be used when you have a few free minutes between classroom activities or at the end of the day. You'll be surprised at how much extra spelling practice you can provide when you are focused and when you keep a list of spelling bee words handy!
3. Be sure to use spelling bee words in sentences when quizzing students. For instance, pause, should be clarified so it won't be confused with paws: The officials decided to pause the game while they reviewed the last play. See this collection of 50 homophones for lots of similar examples.
4. Encourage students to learn new words from content areas. Consider making word walls for different disciplines. For example, label one wall, "Social Studies." Add words such as continent, democracy, liberty, constitution, amendment, ratification, governor, bayou, tundra, and so on. Make additional walls for math, health/science, art, music and other areas of interest.
Check out these 5th grade spelling lists. You'll find three more big lists from typical fifth grade math, science and social studies classes. There are lots of great words for your students to learn!
More 5th Grade Spelling Bee Words & Helps
Need more words with sentences, rules, award certificates, and lots of organizational tips? Please consider purchasing our exclusive Spelling Bee Toolbox, for grades 3-5 and grades 6-8. Each one contains 600 grade-appropriate bee words, used in sentences, and all the resources you need for a successful spelling bee!
Or use the Monumental Spelling Bee Word Lists! These lists contain all the features you could ever want for your next spelling bee competition! The lists are available in three volumes, for Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6, and Grades 7-8.
Reward your spelling bee winners or your hard-working spellers anytime with our own Spelling Words Well mugs!
5th Grade Vocabulary Words - Mega-word list of 200 words! Some are arranged in ten categories to engage your students in topics such as sports, adjectives, people, places, social studies, fruits and more! How about a game of hilarious racquetball on a tundra with a cartographer?
Practice new spelling words and vocabulary words in context with my Writing Prompts for Kids. Search through the entire directory to find the prompts that are best for your group. Look by grade level, or topic. Each prompt contains at least one grade-level spelling words. I added engaging clip art to each reproducible.
What will your students say about a mouse that sneaks in to the principal's office? What will they do when they wake up on an island of chocolate? Why might they be summoned to the White House? Use these writing prompts for 5th grade and find out!
Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.
Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.
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