Spell Bee Summer Word List for Class 3

Practise the whole list the way Rapid Fire and Get, Set, Spell! test it: hear each word, type it, and see straight away if it is right. Words you miss come back until you get them.

This is the full CREST International Spell Bee - Summer word list for Class 3, grouped by topic. Open any word to see what it means, how to spell it, the letters children most often get wrong, and practice questions.

Adjectives

agile, agreeable, amusing, ancient, attractive, average, bold, breezy, bushy, comfortable, creep, curly, dainty, daring, delicate, destructive, disgusting, distant, domestic, elegant, energetic, enormous, entire, expert, fabulous, fascinating, fierce, fortunate, gradual, gross, harmful, harsh, impossible, intelligent, interesting, jolly, joyous, lively, magnificent, mighty, mischievous, modern, mysterious, neighbourly, opposite, peaceful, primary, realistic, responsible, retro, royal, sensitive, shiny, silent, slippery, stormy, swift, tearful, thankful, toothless, unhappy, worried

Antonyms

advanced, alive, basic, boring, care, decrease, discard, flutter, follow, fresh, funny, glory, inner, lead, narrow, neglect, praise, remove, shallow, shame, spend, stale, store, upset

Fruits

apricot, asparagus, bacon, bagel, barley, brownie, caramel, cauliflower, celery, cherry, chicken, cinnamon, courgette, croissant, fruit, lettuce, oatmeal, turnip

Nature & Environment

coast, earthquake, habitat, horizon, marsh, moisture, plain, plateau, reef, vegetable, waterfall

People, Professions & Animals (Nouns)

author, biologist, champion, chef, citizen, clerk, coach, designer, hunter, huntress, inventor, jury, lady, landlady, landlord, lioness, milkmaid, peahen, princess, rooster, tigress, volunteer, waitress

Places

airport, alley, bridge, city, coastline, continent, countryside, embassy, forest, fountain, harbour, marina, museum, palace, playground, railway, region, stadium, suite, underground

Compound Words

anyone, anyway, backbone, bedrock, blackboard, bookshelf, bookstore, campfire, candlestick, cardboard, caveman, daydream, dishwasher, everything, eyeball, forearm, foreword, haircut, hairpin, handsome, headache, highlight, homesick, household, keyhole, lifetime, mailbox, moonlight, newspaper, outcome, outdoors, padlock, popcorn, sandcastle, seashell, snowflake, sunbeam, sunglasses, supermarket, uplift, upstream, weekend, whatever, windmill

Concepts and Ideas

advantage, advice, ambition, anecdote, appearance, appointment, attitude, bravery, brotherhood, celebration, challenge, conclusion, confidence, courage, destiny, dignity, diligence, disadvantage, equality, freedom, honesty, honour, improvement, justice, kindness, loyalty, luxury, motivation, patience, sensitivity, theory, wisdom

Emotions and Anger

affection, amazement, anticipation, awe, bliss, boredom, confusion, contentment, disgust, displeasure, happiness, inspiration, interest, joy, misery, regret, sadness, shyness, surprise, sympathy

Homophones

aisle, autumn, breathe, business, column, communication, debt, flannel, freight, hour, isle, knead, knife, knock, know, patient, sigh, sign

Objects and Things

anchor, binoculars, blueprint, calculator, calendar, chandelier, clipboard, compass, costume, daffodil, diamond, dictionary, envelope, fossil, gem, globe, keyboard, knot, laptop, lighthouse, locket, magnifier, manual, microphone, necklace, notebook, ornament, paintbrush, passport, pillow, pottery, printer, puppet, ruler, signal, suitcase, textbook, toothpaste, vase, wallet, wristband

Sports

badminton, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, cycling, fencing, football, goal, hiking, hockey, judo, karate, netball, polo, rally, rugby, sailing, skating, skiing, snowboarding, swimming, yoga

Synonyms

alike, answer, assess, childish, clear, consult, delay, educate, exciting, faithful, fantastic, garbage, glitter, ideal, important, irate, junk, loyal, musty, offer, perfect, precious, rubbish, ruin, same, serene, small, smart, smelly, trash

Verbs

absorb, accuse, activate, adopt, afford, amuse, annoy, approach, arrange, astonish, attract, bargain, belong, blink, bore, borrow, bother, calculate, capture, carve, celebrate, cling, collect, comfort, commit, compete, complain, confess, confuse, congratulate, consist, contain, convince, damage, decay, defend, detect, devote, digest, disappear, discuss, divide, doodle, dwell, echo, erupt, examine, excite, expand, explode, explore, fasten, frighten, frown, frustrate, harm, haul, hover, hurt, identify, imitate, improve, intend, knit, launch, locate, lose, mumble, nourish, owe, perform, plunder, pounce, prevent, quarrel, raise, recall, receive, rely, reside, reverse, revive, scatter, scold, scrub, shrink, spill, spoil, sprinkle, squat, squeeze, stretch, struggle, suppose, touch, treat, unite, untie, wander, whimper, wink, wriggle

More Words

adapt, adventure, afternoon, almost, angle, annual, appeal, appoint, attention, bacteria, behaviour, beige, belly, benefit, bookworm, brace, buckle, burrow, bush, button, buzzard, cable, canal, candidate, canoe, cargo, case, championship, charger, chill, cleanser, comic, company, completely, consider, container, cooking, copper, correctly, countable, cruise, cucumber, custom, desktop, difference, difficulty, dislike, distrust, do, doorbell, downstairs, dramatist, drummer, dusk, earring, entirely, excuse, exhausted, expression, extremely, fahrenheit, failure, familiar, fastener, feature, feed, fellow, ferry, fireplace, fireworks, flare, flaw, fleece, friendship, gander, gardener, gasp, gesture, grace, graduate, greasy, greengrocer, group, gulf, gutter, habit, handful, heavy, helicopter, herd, hood, individual, inform, item, jewel, journey, junior, ladder, ladle, lazily, leaflet, librarian, limit, lone, lovely, magazine, magic, manure, material, melon, method, mobile, monitor, mood, moss, muscle, mutton, narrative, native, neither, noise, novel, numb, nursery, only, opponent, otter, outer, outfit, parakeet, parsnip, pause, peace, perhaps, personal, phrase, pint, plenty, poetic, population, position, postage, probable, problem, proudly, pulse, radio, radish, rare, recreation, relative, respect, rhyme, rhythm, risk, rudder, scout, scratch, screwdriver, senior, sense, shepherd, sleeve, smoothly, soften, solution, sometimes, somewhere, sorry, soul, special, spectacles, square, steamer, straight, structure, surely, sweep, therefore, thousand, thrill, thunder, timber, title, totally, trait, triumph, trumpet, twilight, untidy, valley, various, vision, wealth, wedding, Wednesday, witch, witty, woollen, wrinkle

Next steps for Class 3 Spell Bee Summer

• Class 3 Spell Bee Summer sample paper
• Class 3 Spell Bee Summer previous year paper
• About the Class 3 Spell Bee Summer Olympiad