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104 words · ages 9–11 · Years 5 and 6

Year 5 and 6 statutory words: all 104 words

The last statutory list — and the ones adults still get wrong. Every word is below — copy them, print the page, or tap once to have SpellChirp hatch the lot with definitions, audio and syllables.
  1. accommodate
  2. accompany
  3. according
  4. achieve
  5. aggressive
  6. amateur
  7. ancient
  8. apparent
  9. appreciate
  10. attached
  11. available
  12. average
  13. awkward
  14. bargain
  15. bruise
  16. category
  17. cemetery
  18. committee
  19. communicate
  20. community
  21. competition
  22. conscience
  23. conscious
  24. controversy
  25. convenience
  26. correspond
  27. criticise
  28. curiosity
  29. definite
  30. desperate
  31. determined
  32. develop
  33. dictionary
  34. disastrous
  35. embarrass
  36. environment
  37. equip
  38. equipped
  39. equipment
  40. especially
  41. exaggerate
  42. excellent
  43. existence
  44. explanation
  45. familiar
  46. foreign
  47. forty
  48. frequently
  49. government
  50. guarantee
  51. harass
  52. hindrance
  53. identity
  54. immediate
  55. immediately
  56. individual
  57. interfere
  58. interrupt
  59. language
  60. leisure
  61. lightning
  62. marvellous
  63. mischievous
  64. muscle
  65. necessary
  66. neighbour
  67. nuisance
  68. occupy
  69. occur
  70. opportunity
  71. parliament
  72. persuade
  73. physical
  74. prejudice
  75. privilege
  76. profession
  77. programme
  78. pronunciation
  79. queue
  80. recognise
  81. recommend
  82. relevant
  83. restaurant
  84. rhyme
  85. rhythm
  86. sacrifice
  87. secretary
  88. shoulder
  89. signature
  90. sincere
  91. sincerely
  92. soldier
  93. stomach
  94. sufficient
  95. suggest
  96. symbol
  97. system
  98. temperature
  99. thorough
  100. twelfth
  101. variety
  102. vegetable
  103. vehicle
  104. yacht

Practise these 104 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

The statutory word lists from the English National Curriculum (Department for Education, 2013), published under the Open Government Licence.

The words English primary schools are required to teach. Year 1 and 2 are the common exception words — the ones that break the phonics rules — and Years 3 to 6 are the statutory lists.

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.