Spelling Bee Word List
by Grade
Pick a grade, print the list or copy it. Kindergarten through grade 6, drawn from curriculum-aligned lists — not scraped from anywhere. Free, and nothing to sign up for.
Spelling Bee Word List — Kindergarten
Name ______________________- 1.about
- 2.all
- 3.am
- 4.and
- 5.and (plus)
- 6.are
- 7.at
- 8.ate
- 9.away
- 10.bat
- 11.be
- 12.big
- 13.black
- 14.blue
- 15.but
- 16.by
- 17.called
- 18.came
- 19.can
- 20.circle
- 21.cold
- 22.count
- 23.day
- 24.den
- 25.did
- 26.do
- 27.down (meaning below)
- 28.each
- 29.equal
- 30.fan
- 31.fig
- 32.find
- 33.first
- 34.for
- 35.four
- 36.get
- 37.good
- 38.had
- 39.happy
- 40.has
- 41.have
- 42.help
- 43.hen
- 44.his
- 45.how
- 46.hug
- 47.is
- 48.it
- 49.its
- 50.jug
- 51.let
- 52.lip
- 53.minus
- 54.mop
- 55.mud
- 56.must
- 57.new
- 58.no
- 59.one
- 60.other
- 61.out
- 62.part
- 63.pin
- 64.please
- 65.pot
- 66.red
- 67.ride
- 68.run
- 69.saw
- 70.say
- 71.she
- 72.sit
- 73.six
- 74.so
- 75.some
- 76.than
- 77.that
- 78.the
- 79.their
- 80.them
- 81.three
- 82.to
- 83.too
- 84.two
- 85.under
- 86.up
- 87.use
- 88.was
- 89.water
- 90.we
- 91.when
- 92.which
- 93.win
- 94.words
- 95.write
- 96.yellow
- 97.you
Running a spelling bee
How many words should a spelling bee list have?
A classroom bee usually runs on 20 to 30 words per round, so most teachers print one grade list and work down it. School-level bees tend to draw from a wider pool across two or three grade levels, because the last few spellers will exhaust an on-level list quickly.
What words are on a grade 3 spelling bee list?
Grade 3 bees lean on two-syllable words with regular patterns, common homophones, and the first wave of irregular spellings such as "because" and "friend". The grade 3 list on this page is drawn from the same curriculum-aligned lists SpellingJoy uses in class.
Can I print the spelling bee list?
Yes. Choose a grade and press Print. The sheet prints on its own with a name line at the top and nothing else from the page, so it is ready to hand out.
Where do these words come from?
They come from SpellingJoy’s curriculum-aligned word lists, the same ones used for classroom practice and assessment. They are not generated or scraped.
How should students practise a spelling bee list?
Hearing the word matters more than reading it, because a bee is spoken. Copy the list into SpellingJoy and each word is read aloud, which is closer to the real thing than reading down a printed page.