SpellChirp

100 words · ages 7–9

Fry's third hundred: all 100 words

Words 201 to 300 — two syllables arrive, and so do thought, enough and important. Every word is below — copy them, print the page, or tap once to have SpellChirp hatch the lot with definitions, audio and syllables.
  1. high
  2. every
  3. near
  4. add
  5. food
  6. between
  7. own
  8. below
  9. country
  10. plant
  11. last
  12. school
  13. father
  14. keep
  15. tree
  16. never
  17. start
  18. city
  19. earth
  20. eyes
  21. light
  22. thought
  23. head
  24. under
  25. story
  26. saw
  27. left
  28. don't
  29. few
  30. while
  31. along
  32. might
  33. close
  34. something
  35. seem
  36. next
  37. hard
  38. open
  39. example
  40. begin
  41. life
  42. always
  43. those
  44. both
  45. paper
  46. together
  47. got
  48. group
  49. often
  50. run
  51. important
  52. until
  53. children
  54. side
  55. feet
  56. car
  57. mile
  58. night
  59. walk
  60. white
  61. sea
  62. began
  63. grow
  64. took
  65. river
  66. four
  67. carry
  68. state
  69. once
  70. book
  71. hear
  72. stop
  73. without
  74. second
  75. late
  76. miss
  77. idea
  78. enough
  79. eat
  80. face
  81. watch
  82. far
  83. Indian
  84. real
  85. almost
  86. let
  87. above
  88. girl
  89. sometimes
  90. mountains
  91. cut
  92. young
  93. talk
  94. soon
  95. list
  96. song
  97. being
  98. leave
  99. family
  100. it's

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.