Spelling Words Grade 5

Below are the spelling words for the year. Students will be practicing the spelling words
during our learning centres, however, students are expected to practice the words at home
during the week. The date provided for each spelling list is the date of the spelling test.
Goal: The goal of spelling words is not to score a high mark on a spelling test; but to
increase your childs word knowledge during independent reading, and apply the correct
spelling during independent writing.
Suggestions to prepare for the tests and assist in application of spelling words:
1. Read and Copy words
a. Have your child read the words out loud.
b. Copy the words out twice on a piece of paper.
c. Check for accuracy when they have finished.
2. Dictation Quiz
a. Take the words from the word list, in random order, and read them
out like this
i. The first word is dog. The dog ran down the street - dog.
Now carefully write the word dog.
b. Your child will write the words from the word list carefully on a
piece of paper.
c. Correct the paper, and show your child the mistakes that they
made.
3. Sentence Writing
a. Have your child practice using each word by placing them into
sentences.
b. Encourage your child to use more than one word in their sentences.
Although I understand that your lives are busy and spelling practice cannot be done every
night during the week, please do not leave the spelling practice to the night before the
test. Time management is a very important skill for your child to learn. Involve them in
setting the times during the week when you both can work together on these spelling
practices. In addition, please try to limit the practice to no more than 15 20 minutes per
night. Thank you for your continued home support in your childs educational
journey!

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Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #1
January
February
April
Thursday
August

Spelling #2
balance
dance
distance
else
purse

Spelling #3
breath
breathe
breeze
cleaning
already

Spelling #4
details
deal
goal
realize
real

Days, Months, Teen Words

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
thirteen
fifteen

eighteen
seventeen
traffic
nineteen
annual

anniversary
seasonal
autumn
fortnight
panicked

Roman
Latin
Viking
myths

pronounce
purchased
resources
release
forced

false

health
semed
meadow
disease
creatures

employee
defeated
eager
disagree
sweater

threaten
degree

bowl
style
squeal
heal
jewel

cereal
serial
trial
foul
yield

wealthy
healthy

Words with ce, se

twice
increase
province
police
service

surface
promise
license
fierce
practice

Words with ee, ea

instead
leading
reasons
dreamed
means

Vowels with L
wheel
steal
feel
mild
pile

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Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #5
include
unusual
avenue
refuse
ruin

Spelling #6
apart
mirror
history
forward
afford

Spelling #7
further
herself
learning
turning
returned

Spelling #8
beware
nearly
repair
appear
nuclear

Spellings for /oo/ and /yoo/

truth
prove
value
drew
movie

improve
beautiful
amuse
view
accuse

fuel
fluid
volume
human
unique

mood
youth

inform
partner
therefore
predator
behaviour

motorcycle
senior

Vowels +r -ar, or
scored
sharp
boring
farther
support

major
ordered
horrid
exploring
ignored

/er/ Spelled er, ear, ir, and ur

searched
worse
worth
wondering
offered

girlfriend
energy
forward
determined
earned

modern
deserve
disturb
observe
discovered

neither
concerned

glare
sphere
pier
atmosphere
aerobics

prayer
fearless

Spellings for /air/

aware
gear
bare
fear
fair

steer
clear
sincerely
weird
heir

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Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #9
throughout
although
alright
neighbour
fought

Spelling #10
popular
calendar
similar
circular
liar

Spelling #11
final
natural
mineral
usual
general

Spelling #12
frighten
frozen
dozen
happens
given

augh, eigh, igh, ough

ought
dough
thoughts
laughing
knight

eight
might
taught
fright
laughter

thorough
lightly
weight
drought
naughty

sigh
brought

cougar
cedar
muscular
burglar
grammar

molar
irregular
singular
scholar
peculiar

regular
spectacular

personal
hospital
political
arrival
principal

physical
actual
tropical
individual
critical

musical
provincial

beaten
enlarge
encounter
encourage
gotten

chosen
enclosed

Words Ending in ar
particular
solar
familiar
lunar
guitar

Suffix _al
metal
global
capital
material
national

Prefix and Suffix en

golden
hidden
listening
entire
taken

wooden
entered
citizen
oxygen
awaken

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Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #13
thick
market
attic
arctic
attack

Spelling #14
fastest
missing
climbed
slower
putting

Spelling #15
compared
earliest
healthier
noticed
worrying

Spelling #16
wholl
youve
theyve
hed
hadnt

Words Ending in ic, ck

traffic
packet
Atlantic
panic
plastic

picking
Pacific
fantastic
terrific
athletic

magnetic
mechanic
heroic
Olympics
plastic

electric
gigantic

Vowel Suffixes: Doubling Rule, Compartatives

checked
winning
rushed
growing
screaming

tripped
landed
suggested
waited
borrowed

delivered
forgetting
interesting
leading
weirdest

answered
meanest

Vowel Suffixes: Words Ending in e and y

buying
writing
married
driving
copied

leaving
recognized
buried
deciding
increasing

emptying
anazing
marrying
created
replied

annoying
exciting

weed
youre
your
theirs
theres

theyre
there

Diphthongs ou, ow
theyd
weve
werent
shed
hell

well
Id
whos
whose
wed

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Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #17
windows
words
students
groceries
players

Spelling #18
anyones
parents
Canadas
Americas
neighbours

Spelling #19
mammal
contest
topic
humor
metric

Spelling #20
weather
whether
quiet
quite
allowed

Plurals
brothers
thousands
leaves
sandwiches
roofs

videos
wives
guesses
communities
systems

centuries
enemies
opportunities
activities
injuries

addresses
businesses

Singular and Plural Possesives

someones
characters
oceans
nations
nobodys

everybodies
wives
daughters
aunts
cousins

stomachs
tongues
islands
communitys
factories

businesses
countrys

suffer
intended
polite
method
expand

fluid
minimum

Syllable Patterns
highway
salad
single
minus
monsters

invent
rapid
fantastic
vitamins
maximum

Common Confusions and Homophones

aloud
picture
pitcher
war
wore

lose
loose
disprove
disapprove
rays

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raise
dairy
diary
medal
meddle

recent
resent

Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #21
active
relative
expensive
engine
imagine

Spelling #22
limit
habit
permit
profit
chocolate

Spelling #23
daily
freshly
mainly
lonely
completely

Spelling #24
dangerous
famous
jealous
enormous
poisonous

Unaccented Endings ain, ine, ive

machine
bargain
certain
survive
captain

curtain
native
negative
massive
creative

detective
sensitive
positive
gasoline
villain

medicine
magazine

Unaccented Endings ate, et, it, ite

basket
climate
planet
estimate
calculate

opposite
favourite
frustrate
budget
variety

illustrate
decorate
definite
separated
accurate

evaporate
credit

recently
exactly
immediately
frequently
extremely

properly
constantly
roughly
especially
obviously

unfortunately
briefly

obvious
suspicious
marvelous
courageous
monstrous

glamorous
adventurous
envious
anxious
mysterious

humorous
serious

Suffix ly, Adverbs

wildly
silently
boldly
lately
noisily

Suffix _ous
curious
furious
ridiculous
nervous
delicious

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Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #25
population
fashion
information
direction
conversation

Spelling #26
experiment
excitement
basement
payment
enjoyment

Spelling #27
internet
laser
radar
goodbye
clump

Spelling #28
uniform
universe
triangle
century
December

Suffix _ion
imagination
caution
solution
operation
attention

champion
suggestion
transportation
construction
election

ambition
protection
collision
situation
cushion

attraction
condition

disagreement
advertisement
membership
encouragement
neighbourhood

apartment
equipment

Suffixes hood, ment, ship

environment
friendship
motherhood
childhood
movement

treatment
development
entertainment
amusement
championship

Acronyms, Abbreviations, Clipped and Blended Words

flare
smog
glimmer
smash
scuba

sonar
movie
splatter
infomercial
fortnight

sitcom
squiggle
auto
memo
motel

twirl
blotch

Prefixes Indicating Size, Amount, Number

November
September
October
triple
polygon

bicycles
equal
united
unique
magnify

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microphone
omnivore
monorail
decade
minute

polygon
kilometer

Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #29
under, be
superpower
superstar
overseas
overhead
beneath

Spelling #30
fore, post

Prefixes Indicating Where: super, over, sur, sub,

between
beyond
surround
subway
underground

overcome
subzero
supermarket
submarine
superb

surname
supersonic
behave
submerge
beware

surplus
subject

Prefixes Indicating Direction: per, ex, de, ab, ad,

perform

depart

postpone

advance

advantage

percent

absent

exclude

advertise

admitted

expert

advice

explode

exhaust

extreme

forecast

detour

absorb

deserve

excuse

decrease

abdomen

Spelling #31
cooperate
convince
collect
concerned
consider

Spelling #32
spec, vis
dictionary
predict
design
describe
program

Prefixes co, col, com, con

control
contribute
connect
contain
combine

complain
command
conquer
correspond
construct

compose
compete
companion
conserve
copilot

condense
collide

Root Words: dict, sign, scrib, script, graph, gram,

paragraph
respect
visible
visitor
grammar

description
biography
graphics
contradict
spectacular

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subscribe
prescribe
diagram
geography
spectator

species
spectacle

Spelling Words Grade 5

Spelling #33
brake
break
heard
herd
billed

Spelling #34
preset
dove
point
company
charge

Spelling #35
ranch
juice
hamburger
route
toast
restaurant

Spelling #36
celsius
candy
sandwich
rugby
watt

Homophones
build
road
rode
steal
steel

desert
dessert
guessed
guest
board

bored
cereal
serial
higher
hire

sighed
side

record
rebel
contract
relish
object

stump
refuse
sole
express
notice

close
content

Homographs
minute
lead
produce
bright
tire

Words Borrowed From Other Languages

pita
jeans
broccoli
coffee
potato
chili

barbecue
tofu
buffet
coleslaw
parka
kayak

squash
moccasin
cassette
patio
yogurt
spaghetti

chow mein
curry
antique
limousine

guy
scrooge
fahrenheit
diesel
bikini

frisbee
tuxedo
bunsen burner
braille
boycott

canary
guppy

Eponyms
decibel
cardigan
vandal
pants
volt

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