The Fry Sight Words on this page come from Dr. Edward B. Fry's List of 1000 Instant words. His list is made up of the most frequently used words in children's books, novels, articles and textbooks. The words are ranked in order of frequency.
The list was compiled by Dr. Fry in 1996. His research found that just 25 words make up approximately 1/3 of all published text. He noted that 100 words make up about 1/2, and 300 words make up 65% of all written material.
Here are words 601 through 1000 in the list. You'll find links to the other Fry sight words at the bottom of the page.
List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
cross | already | hair | rolled |
speak | instead | age | bear |
solve | phrase | amount | wonder |
appear | soil | scale | smiled |
metal | bed | pounds | angle |
son | copy | although | fraction |
either | free | per | Africa |
ice | hope | broken | killed |
sleep | spring | moment | melody |
village | case | tiny | bottom |
factors | laughed | possible | trip |
result | nation | gold | hole |
jumped | quite | milk | poor |
snow | type | quiet | let's |
ride | themselves | natural | fight |
care | temperature | lot | surprise |
floor | bright | stone | French |
hill | lead | act | died |
pushed | everyone | build | beat |
baby | method | middle | exactly |
buy | section | speed | remain |
century | lake | count | dress |
outside | iron | consonant | cat |
everything | within | someone | couldn't |
tall | dictionary | sail | fingers |
List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
row | president | yourself | caught |
least | brown | control | fell |
catch | trouble | practice | team |
climbed | cool | report | God |
wrote | cloud | straight | captain |
shouted | lost | rise | direct |
continued | sent | statement | ring |
itself | symbols | stick | serve |
else | wear | party | child |
plains | bad | seeds | desert |
gas | save | suppose | increase |
England | experiment | woman | history |
burning | engine | coast | cost |
design | alone | bank | maybe |
joined | drawing | period | business |
foot | east | wire | separate |
law | choose | pay | break |
ears | single | clean | uncle |
glass | touch | visit | hunting |
you're | information | bit | flow |
grew | express | whose | lady |
skin | mouth | received | students |
valley | yard | garden | human |
cents | equal | please | art |
key | decimal | strange | feeling |
See this helpful list of tips for Teaching Sight Words.
List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
supply | guess | thick | major |
corner | silent | blood | observe |
electric | trade | lie | tube |
insects | rather | spot | necessary |
crops | compare | bell | weight |
tone | crowd | fun | meat |
hit | poem | loud | lifted |
sand | enjoy | consider | process |
doctor | elements | suggested | army |
provide | indicate | thin | hat |
thus | except | position | property |
won't | expect | entered | particular |
cook | flat | fruit | swim |
bones | seven | tied | terms |
mall | interesting | rich | current |
board | sense | dollars | park |
modern | string | send | sell |
compound | blow | sight | shoulder |
mine | famous | chief | industry |
wasn't | value | Japanese | wash |
fit | wings | stream | block |
addition | movement | planets | spread |
belong | pole | rhythm | cattle |
safe | exciting | eight | wife |
soldiers | branches | science | sharp |
List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
company | sister | gun | total |
radio | oxygen | similar | deal |
we'll | plural | death | determine |
action | various | score | evening |
capital | agreed | forward | hoe |
factories | opposite | stretched | rope |
settled | wrong | experience | cotton |
yellow | chart | rose | apple |
isn't | prepared | allow | details |
southern | pretty | fear | entire |
truck | solution | workers | corn |
fair | fresh | Washington | substances |
printed | shop | Greek | smell |
wouldn't | suffix | women | tools |
ahead | especially | bought | conditions |
chance | shoes | led | cows |
born | actually | march | track |
level | nose | northern | arrived |
triangle | afraid | create | located |
molecules | dead | British | sir |
France | sugar | difficult | seat |
repeated | adjective | match | division |
column | fig | win | effect |
western | office | doesn't | underline |
church | huge | steel | view |
Set 1 First, Second, Third Hundred
Fry Sight Words
Set 2 - Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Hundred Words
We have Dolch Sight Word Lists, too, including:
Dolch sight words list: Printable list of the Dolch "service" sight words, arranged by grade level. These are essential non-noun words that young readers need to recognize instantly and spell easily.
Dolch sight word nouns: An alphabetical list of the Dolch nouns. This is a great resource for making your own classroom games, word walls and worksheets. It's easy for kids to draw pictures of these words and use picture clues to help them read the words.
Please note that we have lots of sight word games and activities to help provide plenty of fun practice with each important sight words list.
What's Missing? - Try these games to build reading, spelling and memory skills!
Tic-Tac-Toe Game - A simple, fun format that kids can use over and over with any sight words.
AnyWord Spelling Practice Series Worksheets, Games and Prompts that work with almost ANY spelling words!
Fun Spelling Worksheets for Grades 1 and 2 50 All-new reproducible pages for early learners!
Gigantic Spelling Bee Word Lists with definitions, sentences and languages
Spelling Bee Toolboxes for Grades 3/5 and 6/8 All the resources you need for a successful bee!
Monumental Spelling Bee Word Lists for grades 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8 with definitions, sentences and languages
Mammoth Spelling Bee Word Lists for grades 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8 with sentences, definitions, and languages
Young Spellers Spelling Bee Word List for Grades 1 & 2 only
100 Difficult Spelling Bee Words with Definitions, Sentences and Pronunciations, Volumes 1 and 2
600 Spelling Bee Words & Sentences for Gr 3/5 & 6/8 Extra words & sentences at two levels