5th Grade Vocabulary List
The 5th grade is the last year of elementary school. Its 300 spelling words are from everyday life, with frequency only lower than the previous grade. We show them in eight sub-groups alphabetically. The page also has other vocabulary, such as academic words, reading words, and sight words.
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Quick Access 5th Grade LAK12 Spelling Words
LAK12 recommends the following 300 words as a must-have spelling skill for the 5th-grade students. The vocabulary lists are displayed in eight groups on the webpage, making it easy to view and skim. Each word is clickable to check its definition on demand.
In each group webpage, you can run interactive spelling quizzes, word definition single-choice tests, and other online exercises. Because some people used to study new words in old-school ways, the list's PDFs are also available to download from the page.
In each group webpage, you can run interactive spelling quizzes, word definition single-choice tests, and other online exercises. Because some people used to study new words in old-school ways, the list's PDFs are also available to download from the page.
advantage
aisle
alley
allowance
alphabet
angel
announcement
anywhere
apologize
appointment
assignment
autograph
awhile
backpack
barefoot
barrel
basketball
beet
behavior
blanket
bounce
bound
breathless
brightness
broccoli
broke
brook
bubble
buffalo
butcher
cabinet
cable
canoe
careless
cash
celery
cement
centimeter
chalkboard
champion
chapter
charge
cheerful
chop
chronicle
classmate
closet
commercial
commute
completely
compose
composition
conference
confuse
congratulate
conscience
conscious
construction
contest
correction
couple
courtroom
coward
crazy
credit
criticism
cruise
crumb
crumble
curfew
cushion
danger
dealt
December
decide
define
delicate
delivery
dessert
destructive
diner
dirty
disagree
disappear
dishonest
dislike
disobedience
distrust
dolphin
donkey
drove
eleven
especial
excellent
excess
excuse
explosion
extra
fairness
fence
fireproof
flashlight
Florida
football
fourteen
fourth
fudge
fuel
gallon
geometry
giant
giraffe
goodness
graduate
grasshopper
grateful
greatness
heal
health
heartbroken
height
helpless
hideous
hockey
honey
hopefully
hopeless
hospital
hotel
identify
impossible
inactive
incomplete
inconvenient
incorrect
incredible
independent
inference
insensitive
inspect
instructor
interview
invade
invasion
invention
invisible
invite
isle
journalism
July
jury
Kansas
kindergarten
kitchen
lately
lazy
liquid
location
magnet
March
mean
meter
metric
mileage
misbehave
misfortune
misplace
mistreat
model
monkey
mood
motor
motorcycle
muffin
multiplication
mustard
neighbor
nephew
nerve
nighttime
obstruction
odd
offer
operation
oven
package
paddle
painful
passage
pavement
payment
peace
peaceful
personal
personality
pickle
pint
pleasure
pledge
poetry
pollution
pond
postage
pour
powerful
private
protect
proud
pudding
punishment
pursuit
quart
queen
quick
quilt
raise
rattle
react
rebuild
recall
recess
recognize
referral
relate
relative
relax
respectfully
respectively
reunion
reuse
rough
safely
salmon
season
semester
sensitize
sentimental
separation
serious
shelter
sheriff
shoot
shudder
signal
skateboard
snack
softball
soften
softness
somewhere
spotless
squash
stable
station
stole
stomach
storage
storm
structural
suffer
suit
support
sword
teammate
Texas
therapy
thermal
thirsty
thoughtful
throne
title
toe
tongue
touchdown
tough
trash
treat
treatment
ugly
unfortunate
universe
unusual
useless
vacation
victory
waist
waste
weekend
weekly
weird
welcome
whatever
wheat
whenever
wherever
whirl
worry
worthless
wreckage
All Lists (Subgroups) of 5th Grade
LAK12 Spelling Words:
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Word Lists By District Or School:
Memphis-Shelby County Schools - Memphis, TN, USA
Hyde Park Central School District - Hyde Park, New York
Dehcho Divisional Education Council - Dehcho, NT, Canada
Memphis-Shelby County Schools - Memphis, TN, USA
Hyde Park Central School District - Hyde Park, New York
Dehcho Divisional Education Council - Dehcho, NT, Canada
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