Looking for a list of 6th grade spelling words? This huge list is perfect for spelling practice, activities and tests for your sixth graders!
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I’ve typed up a bunch of great sixth grade spelling words for you to use throughout the school year. These words are perfect for spelling activities, worksheets, spelling tests, and even spelling bees.
After the regular list of words, I’ve added a ton of 7th grade spelling words to challenge your students.
Let me know in the comments if you’d like me to separate the giant list of spelling words to have a weekly spelling list! I’m happy to do whatever will be more helpful.
I’ve also typed lists of 4th grade spelling words, 5th grade spelling words, and 7th grade spelling words. I hope you find them helpful too!
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6th Grade Spelling Word Lists
Here are a bunch of spelling words. I hope these help you with your teaching or with help ing your child at home.
- abolish
- absence
- accept
- accident
- accidentally
- acquire
- adequate
- administration
- admissible
- adopt
- advantage
- adventure
- adverb
- advisor
- again
- aghast
- agony
- ailment
- alchemy
- algebra
- aluminum
- ambulance
- ancient
- another
- answered
- anxious
- appearance
- appetizer
- appointment
- approach
- aptitude
- arithmetic
- artichoke
- audience
- autumn
- aware
- banquet
- basis
- beautifully
- because
- behind
- beliefs
- bicycle
- bigger
- blown
- bough
- bowling
- bows
- brokenhearted
- buffaloes
- building
- burden
- calendar
- California
- cannon
- canyon
- capable
- capacity
- catsup
- caution
- ceiling
- cereal
- certainly
- champion
- chiefs
- choir
- choose
- chorus
- civic
- cleanse
- clumsy
- combination
- comedy
- comfortable
- common
- communist
- community
- complain
- concentration
- concern
- connection
- consider
- constant
- constitution
- contagiour
- conversation
- cooperation
- correct
- costumes
- cottage
- coupon
- cowboy
- creative
- creature
- crept
- crisis
- crutch
- crystal
- crystallize
- cuffs
- culture
- curious
- dangerous
- daylight
- debris
- decade
- decision
- defeat
- defender
- delicate
- delivery
- demonstrate
- denominator
- deny
- department
- departure
- deposit
- depth
- descendant
- descent
- desecration
- desserts
- didn’t
- disagreement
- disastrous
- discussion
- distance
- distributed
- doing
- doubt
- earliest
- echoes
- edition
- educate
- effective
- efforts
- electricity
- element
- elevator
- emergency
- employer
- emptiness
- encouragement
- encyclopedia
- enlighten
- entertainment
- entire
- entrance
- envelope
- equator
- erupt
- especially
- establish
- etiquette
- everything
- examine
- example
- excellent
- excitement
- exercise
- existence
- expect
- experience
- expert
- expnesive
- exterior
- familiar
- faucet
- fierce
- financial
- fireproof
- fishing
- Florida
- following
- foreign
- forgetting
- forgiveness
- forward
- fossil
- fraction
- freight
- frighten
- fuel
- further
- gallon
- garage
- gasoline
- gaze
- generally
- gesture
- governor
- graduation
- grateful
- grief
- halves
- hamburger
- hangar
- hanger
- happiness
- harmony
- hasten
- hasty
- headache
- heroes
- history
- honorable
- horizon
- horse
- hula
- humane
- hunger
- hyphen
- icicles
- ignore
- imagination
- imbalance
- imitate
- immediate
- immediately
- immigrant
- immovable
- immune
- impatient
- import
- importance
- impossible
- impress
- improvement
- independence
- infinite
- ingredient
- injury
- innocent
- inquire
- instead
- instruction
- intermission
- interview
- intimidate
- introduce
- invisible
- invitation
- invite
- involve
- irresistible
- jealous
- journey
- junior
- knack
- kneeling
- knowledge
- lawyer
- league
- legal
- letters
- liberate
- liberty
- linger
- liquid
- listening
- literal
- literature
- loaves
- location
- longer
- luggage
- major
- manager
- manner
- manor
- marriage
- married
- massive
- matter
- meant
- mechanic
- medicine
- mediocre
- mention
- miles
- military
- minus
- minute
- minute
- mistaken
- misunderstand
- mixture
- mourn
- multiple
- muscle
- muscular
- museum
- musician
- mute
- myth
- national
- nationality
- nature
- nearby
- negative
- noisy
- noticeable
- novel
- numerator
- obtain
- occur
- official
- ointment
- operate
- orientation
- original
- ourselves
- outline
- partial
- passenger
- patient
- penalty
- penguin
- percent
- perform
- performance
- perseverance
- personal
- persuade
- photosynthesis
- physical
- piano
- plumber
- poem
- poet
- poetry
- policy
- pollute
- pollution
- positive
- potatoes
- practical
- predict
- prefer
- pressure
- prevent
- principal
- private
- progress
- project
- pumpkins
- punish
- purchase
- purse
- pursue
- quality
- quartet
- quiver
- quizzes
- quote
- raccoon
- radios
- radius
- rapid
- ratio
- reaction
- realize
- recently
- recycle
- reduce
- referred
- regardless
- regular
- rehearse
- release
- relief
- relieve
- rely
- remarkable
- remember
- remembering
- remind
- remote
- replacement
- replied
- reply
- report
- requirement
- rescue
- research
- resident
- resist
- resource
- resources
- respectful
- review
- roam
- routine
- rumbling
- rumor
- rural
- safety
- sailor
- salmon
- salute
- sandwich
- satisfy
- saucer
- saucy
- scarcely
- scientific
- scissors
- sculptor
- security
- selection
- senior
- sensational
- sense
- sentence
- separately
- sequins
- serious
- session
- shampoo
- shelves
- shorten
- silent
- simply
- skateboard
- sketch
- skillful
- smartest
- solar
- solemn
- sought
- spaghetti
- sponge
- spring
- square
- squawk
- squeak
- staggered
- states
- stood
- storage
- strain
- strategy
- strength
- strive
- struggle
- student
- studios
- subtle
- success
- suggestion
- summer
- support
- surrounded
- sword
- system
- teammate
- telephone
- television
- temperature
- Tennessee
- theme
- themselves
- theory
- there’s
- therefore
- thicken
- thousand
- threat
- thunderstorm
- tomatoes
- tongue
- tornadoes
- trophies
- trouble
- turtleneck
- tutor
- twenty
- unbelievable
- underneath
- unite
- vacuum
- vague
- vain
- variety
- vary
- vault
- vegetable
- vein
- violence
- visible
- vision
- volleyball
- waste
- whether
- who’s
- whose
- work
- worst
- would
- wrestle
- wrinkle
- yield
- young

Challenge Words
Here is a list of 7th grade spelling words you can use to challenge your students!
- compressor
- delayed
- dreadful
- especially
- damage
- diamond
- equip
- extraordinary
- culminate
- descendant
- episode
- executive
- concentrate
- deodorant
- economics
- exchange
- courage
- deny
- engineer
- excellent
- concentration
- desirous
- economy
- expensive
- conductor
- diameter
- either
- extortion
- confetti
- digest
- elementary
- fabricate
- control
- dismissal
- encircle
- favorite
- confident
- discouraged
- embarrass
- fascinating
- congratulations
- dispersal
- emotion
- fiasco
- consequently
- distinguished
- emphasize
- deceive
- disgraceful
- erosion
- fatigue
- daughter
- discipline
- equipped
- failure
- content
- dispose
- employed
- flagrant
- consumer
- doubt
- employ
- cousin
- deficiency
- envelope
- eruption
- copies
- description
- endurance
- exhibit
- computers
- deliver
- drummer
- every
- convict
- destroyed
- encyclopedia
- extinguish
- controlling
- discourage
- enclosing
- familiar
- culprit
- desperate
- equal
- extinct
- courtesy
- delightful
- enough
- ethnic
- crypt
- democracy
- environment
- evident
- controversy
- dictionary
- encounter
- extremely
- cringe
- delicious
Spelling Word Activities
Here are 14 fun activities for your students! They will love doing these different activities.
- Scrambled Words: Unscramble the spelling words!
- Definitions: Write as many definitions of the words as they know. This will help their vocabulary skills!
- Rainbow Letters: Use a different colored pencil or crayon to write each letter of the word.
- Spelling Word Pictures: Choose some words to draw pictures of. You get to choose how many pictures you’d like them to draw. Your students can draw the pictures at their own pace. Encourage them to use their imagination!
- Invisible Words: Write the spelling words on a piece of paper with a white crayon. Then use markers to color over the spelling words. The spelling words will appear out of nowhere! Your students will love it.
- Dice Spelling Words: List six of these activities on a piece of paper. Then have students roll the dice for each word and do what they rolled. For example, if they roll a three and three is rainbow letters, they get to write that word with rainbow letters.
- Fun Letters: Have the students write their spelling words with tall letters, tiny letters, zigzag letters, swirly letters, and any other fun letters they can think of!
- Crossword Puzzles: Have your students make up their own crossword puzzle for the spelling words. They’ll love it!
- Word Search Puzzles: Let your students make their own word search puzzle. You can even have the students solve each other puzzles!
- Online Spelling Games: There are a whole bunch of spelling online your kids can do to practice too!
- Colored Words: Write the spelling words using different colored pencils, crayons, or markers.
- Spelling Word Pictures: Draw a picture, like a house or anything they’d like, using the spelling words. So instead of using lines to draw the object, they’ll write the spelling words.
- Alphabetical Order: Write all of the spelling words in alphabetical order. Make sure they are in the correct order.
- Sentences: Write each spelling word in a sentence. Bonus points if there’s more than one word in a sentence.
FAQs
Here are some frequently asked questions about 6th grade spelling words.
A 12 year old should be able to spell the words continued, detrimental, ecology, fashion, grease, daughter, direction, errands, finished, harvest, insult, manageable, million, paint, position, referee, sandal, solve, stringent, thumb, universe, x-ray, and acoustics.
My students loved playing Sparkle. Each student says a letter of the spelling word. If they miss a letter, they’re out. You can also have your students draw picture of their spelling words or write their words with crayons.
You can make spelling fun by doing a different activity for spelling practice. One day, my students would write their words with markers or colored pencils. Another day, they’re draw a picture using their words. Another day, they’d write a story with their words. We’d also play Sparkle with the spelling words.
Here are some spelling words for 6th grade: communication, dessert, distance, extravagant, fuel, imagine, journey, melody, natural, phrase, problem, result, section, station, supply, trilogy, various, , rising, sincerely, stopping, tasty, tumble, which, allowed, April, caught, possible, radio, saucer, situation, stunt, and tenant.

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Final Thoughts
This was a huge list of spelling words. I wrote it so you can use it in your classroom. Use the words to make different activities or worksheets.
You can also use these words to help you child with spelling at home. Practice these words with your child so they’re do well on their tests.
I hope you like these spelling words as much as I do! Let me know what you think in the comments.