SpellChirp

100 words · ages 6–8

Fry's second hundred: all 100 words

Words 101 to 200 — where the spellings start getting awkward. Every word is below — copy them, print the page, or tap once to have SpellChirp hatch the lot with definitions, audio and syllables.
  1. over
  2. new
  3. sound
  4. take
  5. only
  6. little
  7. work
  8. know
  9. place
  10. year
  11. live
  12. me
  13. back
  14. give
  15. most
  16. very
  17. after
  18. thing
  19. our
  20. just
  21. name
  22. good
  23. sentence
  24. man
  25. think
  26. say
  27. great
  28. where
  29. help
  30. through
  31. much
  32. before
  33. line
  34. right
  35. too
  36. mean
  37. old
  38. any
  39. same
  40. tell
  41. boy
  42. follow
  43. came
  44. want
  45. show
  46. also
  47. around
  48. form
  49. three
  50. small
  51. set
  52. put
  53. end
  54. does
  55. another
  56. well
  57. large
  58. must
  59. big
  60. even
  61. such
  62. because
  63. turn
  64. here
  65. why
  66. ask
  67. went
  68. men
  69. read
  70. need
  71. land
  72. different
  73. home
  74. us
  75. move
  76. try
  77. kind
  78. hand
  79. picture
  80. again
  81. change
  82. off
  83. play
  84. spell
  85. air
  86. away
  87. animal
  88. house
  89. point
  90. page
  91. letter
  92. mother
  93. answer
  94. found
  95. study
  96. still
  97. learn
  98. should
  99. America
  100. world

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.