SpellChirp

100 words · ages 8–10

Fry's fourth hundred: all 100 words

Words 301 to 400 — usually, measure, remember: the spellings stop being guessable. Every word is below — copy them, print the page, or tap once to have SpellChirp hatch the lot with definitions, audio and syllables.
  1. body
  2. music
  3. color
  4. stand
  5. sun
  6. questions
  7. fish
  8. area
  9. mark
  10. dog
  11. horse
  12. birds
  13. problem
  14. complete
  15. room
  16. knew
  17. since
  18. ever
  19. piece
  20. told
  21. usually
  22. didn't
  23. friends
  24. easy
  25. heard
  26. order
  27. red
  28. door
  29. sure
  30. become
  31. top
  32. ship
  33. across
  34. today
  35. during
  36. short
  37. better
  38. best
  39. however
  40. low
  41. hours
  42. black
  43. products
  44. happened
  45. whole
  46. measure
  47. remember
  48. early
  49. waves
  50. reached
  51. listen
  52. wind
  53. rock
  54. space
  55. covered
  56. fast
  57. several
  58. hold
  59. himself
  60. toward
  61. five
  62. step
  63. morning
  64. passed
  65. vowel
  66. true
  67. hundred
  68. against
  69. pattern
  70. numeral
  71. table
  72. north
  73. slowly
  74. money
  75. map
  76. farm
  77. pulled
  78. draw
  79. voice
  80. seen
  81. cold
  82. cried
  83. plan
  84. notice
  85. south
  86. sing
  87. war
  88. ground
  89. fall
  90. king
  91. town
  92. I'll
  93. unit
  94. figure
  95. certain
  96. field
  97. travel
  98. wood
  99. fire
  100. upon

Practise these 100 words, free

One tap puts the whole list in the nest. Each word arrives with a definition a child can read, audio and its syllables — then SpellChirp reads them out, marks the spelling and brings back the ones that went wrong. No account needed to start, and no advertising on either plan.

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Where this list comes from

Edward Fry's Instant Words, first published in 1957 and updated in 1980, drawn from a frequency count of American English. Published for classroom use and freely reproduced.

The most common words in English, in the order they are most common. The first hundred alone account for about half of all written English.

How to practise a list this long

Not all at once. Five to ten words a week is the pace that sticks; a list of a hundred is a term’s work, not a weekend’s, and a child who meets ten words five times learns more than one who meets fifty once.

Sight words are the ones that cannot be sounded out, so sounding them out is the wrong tool. Look at the shape of the whole word, say it, cover it, write it — then check the letters against the original rather than the sound.

Count a word as learned when it has been spelled correctly on three separate days. That is the rule SpellChirp uses, and it is roughly where a word stops needing to be looked up.