Fourth Grade Spelling Words
Here's our mammoth list of 300 fourth grade spelling words gleaned from a variety of sources, including textbooks and leading online resources.
Remember that fourth graders are ready to work on building lots of compound words, adding prefixes and suffixes and nailing down tricky sets of homophones. Be sure to give them lots of practice in all of these areas!
List of Fourth Grade Spelling Words
Printable version of our Fourth Grade Spelling Words
NEW! Fourth Grade Spelling Words & Activities for in-school or at-home use! You'll find 180 grade-level words arranged in 12 high-interest topics, including insects, music, detectives, U.S. states, frequently misspelled words, travel and more. A wide variety of engaging activities plus lots of extension activities help to boost learning, too!
Scroll through our list of 300 4th grade spelling lists, or skip ahead to other fourth grade spelling resources.
Words 1- 100
against
agree
airport
alarm
alive
all right
alley
alphabet
although
always
angriest
angry
animal
answer
asleep
attack
aunt
banana
battle
beautiful
beauty
become
beggar
believe
belong
between
blanket
blood
bottle
bought
bounce
breath
bridge
broke
broken
brought
bubble
building
built
busy
button
buying
calf
camera
cardboard
caring
carrying
catch
center
certain
chance
charge
cheer
chicken
chief
choice
choose
chore
chose
circle
cities
clothing
coast
coin
comb
common
copying
corner
cottage
cotton
couch
cough
couldn’t
couple
cousin
cover
crayon
crime
crooked
crow
crowd
crumb
curl
dairy
damage
danger
dawn
deaf
dear
death
decide
degree
deliver
didn’t
dirty
disappear
dislike
divide
double
downstairs
Words 101-200
drain
drawer
earlier
earn
earth
easier
eighty
either
electric
engine
enough
evening
except
faint
false
famous
fear
feather
felt
fever
few
fifth
fifty
final
follow
forever
forgive
forty
fourth
fright
fruit
gain
garden
gasoline
gear
gentle
giant
glance
gold
grandfather
grandmother
groceries
grown
guard
handsome
happiest
he’ll
he’s
health
heard
hiking
holidays
honey
honor
hospital
hour
however
howl
hundred
hungry
hurry
husband
important
interest
invite
jacket
jaw
judge
juice
kindness
kitchen
kneel
knight
libraries
library
listen
lonely
loyal
machine
mailbox
meant
medal
middle
mirror
mistake
moment
monkey
movement
neighbor
neither
nickel
ninety
ninth
no one
nobody
o’clock
obeyed
odd
office
often
Words 201-300
paper
parent
paste
path
peaceful
pencil
perfect
picture
planet
playground
pleasing
police
powerful
proper
public
question
quiet
quilt
quit
quite
railroad
reach
ready
reason
remember
return
ridge
roast
roof
rough
round
ruler
safe
sauce
scrap
search
season
self
seventh
seventy
sharp
she’ll
she’s
shout
sidewalk
sigh
sign
simple
since
sink
sixth
sixty
sleeve
smooth
sneeze
soften
spare
special
squirrel
steal
steel
strange
studied
studying
style
suppose
tennis
thirty
thumb
tool
towel
tube
tuna
twenty
twice
uncle
understand
useful
useless
village
visit
wait
weather
weight
whenever
whether
women
wonder
wood
world
worried
wrist
worse
wouldn’t
written
yourself
zebra
zero
zipper
zoo
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FAQs
Q: What are some good fourth grade spelling words?
Q: What are some good fourth grade spelling words?
A: Here a few from our list of 300 4th grade spelling words: against, all right, although, angriest, beautiful, beggar, believe, breath, building, camera, cardboard, carrying, certain, chief, cousin, decide, disappear, easier, eighty, famous, fourth, gentle, groceries, honor, hospital, important, judge, kitchen, knight, lonely, loyal, machine, movement, neighbor, neither, o'clock, ninety, ninth, no one, office, peaceful, question, reason, remember, rough, sauce, squirrel, studying, tennis, useful, visit, weather, weight, worried, yourself, zero.
Q: How can fourth graders best practice new spelling words?
Q: How can fourth graders best practice new spelling words?
A: It's always best to PRESENT new spelling words in context. So be sure to read meaningful sentences, paragraphs, stories and articles featuring new spelling words. Likewise, ask students to USE words in context. Offer interesting writing prompts and reward students who write more than just a mundane sentence for each new word. Of course, some repetition may be needed to learn the actual spellings of words. But correct meaning should always accompany correct spelling.
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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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