Spell Bee Summer Word List for Class 5

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 5, 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.

Adjective

abnormal, adjacent, adoring, ambitious, analytical, apparent, appreciative, apprehensive, approximate, artistic, assertive, athletic, bankrupt, bashful, bereft, biodegradable, boisterous, bountiful, bridal, brisk, budgetary, collaborative, colourful, commercial, compassionate, compatible, competitive, comprehensive, compulsive, compulsory, confident, conservative, constant, contagious, contemporary, contrary, controversial, convenient, corporate, courageous, courteous, cynical, decisive, defiant, desperate, devout, diffident, digital, disposable, distinct, distinctive, dizzy, dominant, domineering, dreadful, eligible, elite, elusive, embarrassed, emotional, endangered, entangled, equivalent, ethnic, excellent, excitable, famished, faulty, feeble, ferocious, festive, frightened, frightening, frustrated, gaudy, gleeful, grateful, gregarious, gullible, hazy, hearty, herbal, horrifying, humdrum, immense, impatient, imperative, impressive, inappropriate, incredible, independent, industrious, inexpensive, intricate, intrinsic, lenient, medicinal, mediocre, miniature, mournful, muscular, negligent, nonchalant, numerous, opaque, passionate, plausible, portable, primitive, progressive, prosperous, radical, remarkable, respective, satisfactory, secondary, senseless, shrewd, slender, societal, sole, southern, speechless, squalid, stern, sustainable, technical, thrifty, tolerable, uneasy, unique, virtual, voluntary, weird

Adverbs

, furthermore

Agriculture

biofuel, breeding, decomposition, domestication, fodder, furrow, gardening, granary, harvest, hectare, hedgerow, insecticide, irrigate, millet, peasant, plantation, poultry, textile

Antonyms

angelic, brazen, bully, command, copious, cowardice, discourage, fade, goodwill, ignore, innocence, lethargic, majestic, miserable, modesty, picturesque, protect, protest, regard, skinny, sparse, tempt

Compound Words

babysitter, backhand, backstage, backstroke, backtrack, barefoot, bootlace, caretaker, chairperson, cornflour, counterpart, courtyard, crossover, daredevil, dashboard, drawbridge, eardrum, fingernail, flatmate, gooseberry, grapefruit, roundabout, shopkeeper, spokesperson, successful, underdog, watchmaker

Double Letter Words

annul, append, barrel, beginner, cassette, errand, esteem, heed, hull, immune, juggle, luggage, rugged

Evil Words

catastrophe, etiquette, isthmus, mosquito, orchestra, repetition, sanctuary

Government Affairs

allegiance, article, ballot, bureaucrat, cabinet, census, chronicle, chronology, constitution, consulate, council, dominion, judiciary, legislative, ministry, parliament, president, procedure, referendum, resemble, strategy

Homophones

bale, cellar, cite, dual, dye, edition, fare, seller, site

Household Items

blender, conditioner, crockery, freezer, microwave, radiator, refrigerator, utensil

Miscellaneous

, sculpture

Nouns

accent, administration, alliance, amenity, amusement, analyst, antibody, antiseptic, architecture, assertion, aubergine, aural, bacterium, badge, biology, blizzard, blockade, botany, boyhood, bridle, bristle, bureau, butcher, campaign, capitalist, captain, career, chancellor, character, cheekbone, clarity, closure, cluster, collision, companion, comparison, completion, complexity, compost, compressor, compulsion, concept, confession, conjunction, conscience, convention, corridor, courtesy, criterion, cultivation, curfew, dearth, decade, default, deficient, definition, democracy, dessert, destination, digestion, diplomat, disciple, discovery, discrepancy, disposition, documentary, droplet, emergency, equation, eruption, exception, expedition, experiment, explanation, fascination, flora, fraternity, generation, glare, guarantee, havoc, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, illustration, immigrant, inclusion, inheritance, institution, intelligence, intermission, isolation, kipper, language, lavender, league, literacy, livestock, marathon, maturity, merriment, military, modernity, monarch, myth, numeral, nutritionist, occasion, orphan, pamphlet, panel, panic, paradise, pasture, patent, pathogen, performer, period, personification, phobia, porridge, portrait, possibility, poverty, premium, priority, projection, protection, psychologist, purification, quotation, rejoice, relevance, retailer, retention, revolt, royalty, satire, scenery, schedule, scheme, sentiment, separation, sheriff, solicitor, sovereign, specialist, statistics, streak, substitute, suspicion, tangerine, tendency, territory, thermometer, trail, trailer, utility, vaccine, variant, weight, wharf, worship

Prefix

antidote, defrost, devalue, discomfort, disconnect, discord, discount, dislocate, dissatisfied, illogical, immature, imperfect, irresponsible, monochrome, monotone, prefix, reaffirm, reappear, transatlantic, transport, unbroken, untangle, unwrap

STEM Words

astronomy, astrophysics, celestial, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, degradation, denominator, erosion, extinct, gadget, gravitation, joystick, landscape, livelihood, loam, magma, membrane, microscope, neutron, numerator, organism, oxygen, planetarium, revolution, species, toxic, visual, wildlife

Suffix

abnormality, acceptable, accountability, accuracy, adaptation, adequacy, advertisement, affectionate, assistant, candidacy, companionship, creation, denial, enormity, extremity, fallacy, narration, patriotic, preventable, probably, remedial, strengthen, thoughtful, trial, validity, vigilant, volcanic, wreckage

Synonyms

affable, artisan, bluff, coarse, craftsman, credulous, crumble, depart, fascinate, forceful, grumpy, importance, infertile, injury, insensitive, insight, irritable, lethargy, mirth, obedient, observant, perception, progress, religious, respectful, rough, sociable, spiritual, superb

Words from Book

appetite, bouquet, complicate, dismantle, extinguisher, journal, popularity, ridiculous

Verbs

abdicate, abhor, accustom, acknowledge, advertise, affirm, amass, amend, astound, banish, batter, begrudge, behold, belittle, blaze, blister, brighten, browse, cherish, commute, compress, concede, concoct, condone, contaminate, dazzle, debug, deduct, demolish, detain, devastate, distinguish, diverge, enact, ensure, entitle, escalate, evade, evaluate, exasperate, flourish, forward, foster, hinder, include, initiate, intrigue, invigilate, mandate, migrate, navigate, nuzzle, possess, preserve, prohibit, provoke, radiate, reassure, rehearse, reproach, respond, restrict, sparkle, sponsor, stare, surround, swerve, transfix

Words with Silent Letters

crescent, gnash, hustle, kneel, knob, psychology, resign, salmon, wreck

More Words

abandon, accountant, achievement, acquire, align, aloud, although, annoyance, architect, artificial, assemble, assessment, assignment, atmosphere, attendance, auctioneer, banquet, beautician, behalf, bend, benevolent, blissful, brake, break, breakage, broccoli, brochure, catalogue, cautious, ceiling, ceremony, challenging, colossal, comedian, compassion, competitor, component, comrade, conceal, conference, considerate, construction, contented, conversion, cord, crucial, curator, currency, decline, dedicate, dedication, delegate, density, departure, dictate, diploma, disappointment, dromedary, drought, economist, eight, embarrassment, encourage, exclamation, existence, express, faculty, fix, foretell, frustration, generous, geyser, gigantic, glacier, gratitude, guardian, hasten, hilarious, historian, hole, humorous, hurricane, hypothesis, illuminate, imaginary, interpreter, journalist, legal, liberty, lifeguard, lightning, logical, luxurious, marriage, mercy, metal, metallic, mussel, navigator, necessity, ninety, ninth, obsolete, offended, original, particular, percentage, placid, purchase, quay, referee, reference, rehearsal, relief, remedy, repulsive, responsibility, restaurant, scramble, tighten, transparent, understanding, unpleasant, valiant, valid, value, verbose, waist, whole

Next steps for Class 5 Spell Bee Summer

• Class 5 Spell Bee Summer sample paper
• Class 5 Spell Bee Summer previous year paper
• About the Class 5 Spell Bee Summer Olympiad