Sixth Grade Spelling Words

We provide science-backed Sixth Grade Spelling word lists, online spelling tests, and worksheets that are customizable in seconds.

Spelling Test Buddy offers a comprehensive list of Sixth Grade Spelling word lists. Use these words in your 6th grade spelling curriculum or to build custom Worksheets.

Sixth Grade students working on their spelling words

Our Sixth Grade spelling words are broken down into a scope and sequence across 13 weeks to take you from the first day of school, through the whole school year.

Each week contains 20 spelling words.

These words align with the following standards:

CCSS ELA: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.2.e
Next Generation Learning Standards: NGLS ELA.6.L.2

Spelling tests, practice and games for Sixth Graders

Do you want to provide digital spelling tests on these sixth grade word lists? Spelling Test Buddy lets you use any or all of these word lists as a part of your spelling curriculum.

Simply log in and navigate to 📓 Word Lists. Create or Edit a list, and when given the option to add words, from the “Pick a word list” dropdown, select Sixth Grade to start.

You can see a sample for each word list by tapping on “Sample spelling test” below.

Generate custom spelling and phonics worksheets with these words

A sample 6th grade spelling worksheet — Create custom Sixth Grade spelling and ELA
worksheets, like this one, in seconds

Do you want to generate worksheets for definition match, word hunt, cloze (fill in the blank), flash cards, sound sorts, Morphology word matrices, and more?

Simply find the word list you want to use below, then tap on “Generate Worksheet” to get started. This will take you to Worksheet Creator.

You then pick the worksheet template you want to use, edit your list of words, and generate your worksheet.

Then, print, download, or share your worksheet.

Word Lists

Week	Words	Actions
1	international, prehistoric, untrustworthy, constellation, honorary, disagreement, preparation, Philadelphia, promotional, constitution, unbreakable, biodegradable, coordination, compassionate, impossibility, entirety, executive, companionship, unthinkable, predicament	Generate worksheet
2	suspend, pendant, conductor, novel, productive, numeral, reserve, numerous, preserve, pending, pendulum, deduction, novelty, numerator, reservoir, conservatory, appendix, impending, induct, innovative	Generate worksheet
3	ancestor, hospital, grumble, sponsor, superior, escalator, encounter, shoulder, skeleton, forbidden, appetizer, identical, abandon, governor, endeavor, outspoken, durable, lengthen, cinnamon, interior	Generate worksheet
4	ingredients, invitation, jewelry, dramatic, sentence, material, musician, soloist, patient, novelist, descendant, merchant, specialist, peony, enthusiastic, curiosity, optimistic, sophisticated, artificial	Generate worksheet
5	different, sentence, American, brilliant, substitute, opinion, material, complete, jewelry, dramatic, instance, communicate, hesitate, elementary, vitamin, ingredients, invitation, discipline, lasagna, desperate	Generate worksheet
6	suspend, reserve, induct, preserve, reservoir, ancestor, abandon, sponsor, cinnamon, superior, participant, scientist, historian, resident, resident, opinion, discipline, communicate, American, brilliant	Generate worksheet
7	crescent, language, vehicle, exhibit, examine, Michigan, parachute, unique, conquer, rhyme, penguin, exertion, exotic, brochure, symptom, antique, exhausted, heirloom, rhinoceros, bureau	Generate worksheet
8	fantastic, property, honesty, mustard, glimpse, dignity, cottage, message, dungeon, damage, modify, fender, gentle, ruffle, injury, legend, palace, clumsy, strict, cannon	Generate worksheet
9	porch, margin, ignore, corridor, servant, worth, purchase, attorney, artistic, disturb, kernel, barge, particle, market, perhaps, detergent, nervous	Generate worksheet
10	fierce, weird, piece, perceive, perfume, preserve, soldier, model, multiple, fuel, briefcase, retrieve, deceit, perception, vegetable, preferable, rectangle, bushel, pinnacle, preliminary	Generate worksheet
11	answered, qualified, traveled, skied, magnified, honesty, gentle, glimpse, palace, cottage, corridor, ornament, attorney, particle, detergent, preserve, retrieve, model, perception, perfume	Generate worksheet
12	possibility, linear, ridiculous, artificial, calculator, competitive, curiosity, organization, individual, encyclopedia, peony, tarantula, correspondent, cauliflower, optimistic, enthusiastic, sophisticated, satisfactory, irritable, simultaneously	Generate worksheet
13	country's, countries', countries, its, ours, theirs, hers, library's, libraries', libraries, niece's, nieces', nieces, crow's, crows, witness's, witnesses', witnesses, secretary's, secretaries'	Generate worksheet

More weeks coming later this year!