Spelling Test Buddy offers a comprehensive collection of Third Grade spelling word lists. Use these words in your 3rd grade spelling curriculum or to build custom worksheets.
Our Third Grade spelling words are organized into 28 lists. Each list contains approximately 20 spelling words.
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Use the “Generate worksheet” button beside any list to create activities such as definition matching, word hunts, cloze exercises, flash cards, sound sorts, morphology word matrices, and more with Worksheet Creator.
Create a spelling test that reads Third Grade spelling words out loud to my students
Spelling Test Buddy makes it easy to turn the Third Grade lists on this page into online spelling tests with audio. It reads each word aloud and provides a spoken example sentence so students can understand how the word is being used.
During a test, students can replay either the word or its sentence before typing their response. They can work independently and hear the same clear pronunciation each time. Use one of the prepared Third Grade lists below, or make a personalized list with words and sentences from your curriculum. Teach Me, Digital Sorts, and spelling games give students more ways to strengthen recall.
Try this sample test from the first Word List below.
Word Lists
| List | Words | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | click, class, chest, locker, clutch, meant, fumble, monster, clip, strong, ridge, crust, cranberry, cracker, spread, rusty, shock, glitter, stretch, blast | |
| 2 | weight, braid, gray, spade, stage, ladle, delay, nation, explain, plane, fable, eight, strain, crayon, neighbor, paid, freight, later, angle, stray | |
| 3 | appear, holy, ceiling, wheel, reach, detour, magazine, green, conceive, submarine, leaves, country, machine, cemented, conceited, lonely, predict, speech, street, before | |
| 4 | diet, supply, drive, thigh, slice, necktie, Friday, terrify, fight, lies, prize, higher, pie, myself, climb, reply, white, untie, might, science | |
| 5 | toes, snowing, stones, yogurt, foam, glowed, goes, roamed, sodas, close, bowling, alone, mistletoe, boasting, also, float, clothes, grown, doe, cola | |
| 6 | puny, continue, immune, cucumber, cue, huge, value, truth, perfume, view, argue, nephew, ewes, human, useful, jewel, fuel, fewer, fumes, music | |
| 7 | flute, gate, lonely, completely, mule, interfere, careful, parachute, while, supreme, homesick, fame, dine, centipede, shake, cute, playtime, route, choke, cube | |
| 8 | original, carve, clerk, burned, certain, giraffe, burning, alert, porch, market, twirl, perfect, church, partner, rainstorm, birthday, turning, charming, actor, thirst | |
| 9 | hallway, dawn, sauce, fall, hawk, taught, alter, pause, total, softball, yawning, hauling, mall, false, awkward, small, talking, almost, caught, crawl | |
| 10 | dew, Neptune, newest, dune, glued, roof, rumor, stew, toolbox, shook, butcher, overdue, shoot, super, clue, sugar, wooden, smooth, duty, altitude | |
| 11 | destroy, towel, broil, howl, hound, drown, mouth, joyful, choice, soy, cloud, poison, fowl, employ, amount, moist, couch, annoy, noise, crowd | |
| 12 | checker, these, photos, what, shriek, telephone, thicker, pushing, change, when, smooth, phonics, shame, wheat, much, graph, wrench, bush, whirl, month | |
| 13 | happy, myself, generally, attorney, yak, orally, survey, yourself, spying, party, young, slowly, today, cycles, ceremony, usually, betray, yellow, quality, deny | |
| 14 | muscle, height, island, whose, mother, people, heart, thought, friend, where, nothing, beautiful, cough, bought, straight, answer, guess, against, whole, through | |
| 15 | effect, cavity, system, manager, usual, problem, concern, provide, kitten, happily, capital, evil, pencil, offend, specific, alive, obtain, denim, person, comma | |
| 16 | settlement, puzzled, stifle, dangled, sample, circle, dribble, unbuckled, paddled, hassle, fizzled, purple, cattlemen, oracle, measles, rifle, single, humble, trickled, handle | |
| 17 | colon, cider, catalog, cedar, common, cupcakes, category, spicy, courage, exception, bicycle, calendar, current, cities, fancy, citizen, century, casting, custom, concerned | |
| 18 | soggy, gutter, gesture, goblin, energy, elegant, gymnast, gallop, gentle, gotten, apology, gust, gecko, legal, golf, guns, gums, genius, gone, gasoline | |
| 19 | piece, deceive, their, viewpoint, eight, friend, caffeine, receipt, sleigh, conceit, forfeit, either, chief, weigh, perceive, height, weird, believe, neighbor, receive | |
| 20 | dripping, witness, pickup, fictional, abandon, comical, bumper, bookend, beginning, conference, quickly, shuteye, lifting, started, stopped, rainout, entertainment, rancher, consonant, funny | |
| 21 | echoes, shoes, zoos, sofas, schools, goes, turkeys, replays, stereos, videos, zeroes, radios, heroes, pencils, keys, patios, blankets, delays, valleys, computers | |
| 22 | calves, fuzzes, arches, crosses, taxes, marshes, riches, lashes, foxes, wolves, losses, wishes, mixes, buzzes, branches, shelves, bushes, lunches, boxes, wives | |
| 23 | mice, roofs, kudos, moose, fish, Eskimos, cliffs, quail, armadillos, teeth, chefs, people, women, sheep, cuffs, mementos, children, deer, kilos, beliefs | |
| 24 | wouldn't, could've, don't, who's, they've, haven't, what's, we've, they're, hasn't, there's, we're, you've, that's, aren't, you're, it's, I've, isn't, I'm | |
| 25 | known, gauge, folktale, descendent, bomb, knowledge, scepter, league, plumbing, cornstalk, guilty, scenery, yolk, thumb, knit, guard, talking, kneel, scientific, comb | |
| 26 | there, their, they're, to, too, two, scent, cent, sent, affect, effect, piece, peace, right, write, beat, beet, hear, here, bare, bear | |
| 27 | coexist, outperform, understand, middle, antidote, hemisphere, supernatural, transfer, depart, foreword, interact, preview, substitute, mislead, oversleep, improvise, nonfiction, enable, disappear, repeat | |
| 28 | refer, conduct, geography, imposition, sympathy, logical, instruct, inspect, scripture, import, telephone, pedal, mission, transmit, minimum, thermometer, predict, biology, astrology, auditorium |