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Free 5th Grade Spelling Games
Five different games, all built from 50 common 5th grade spelling words. They run in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop — nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Free. All of them.
Pick a game
Every one of these opens already loaded with the 5th grade list below (a game takes up to 40 words at a time).
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Word Catcher
Catch the falling letters in order to spell each word. -
Word Fishing
Catch the letters as they swim by, or fill in the missing one. -
Spelling Twister
Steer a tornado to gobble up the letters and spell each word. -
Word Builder Relay
Unscramble shuffled letter tiles into slots before time runs out. -
Balloon Pop
A word is called out — pop the balloon that matches it.
Using your child's own list instead
A class list rarely matches a published one. Type this week's words in and you get the same games back, built around those words, in about thirty seconds — no email and no account.
The 5th grade word list
Dolch's sight-word lists stop at 3rd grade, so these are 50 common 5th grade spelling words: multi-syllable words, the usual tricky vowel teams, double letters and silent letters.
- absence
- achievement
- acquire
- advantage
- ambition
- analyze
- ancestor
- announce
- apparent
- appreciate
- argument
- athlete
- attitude
- autumn
- available
- balance
- ceiling
- celebrate
- challenge
- column
- committee
- community
- competition
- conclusion
- condition
- conscience
- consider
- continent
- convince
- criticize
- curious
- decision
- definite
- deliberate
- democracy
- descend
- desperate
- develop
- disappoint
- discipline
- distance
- efficient
- embarrass
- emergency
- environment
- equipment
- especially
- existence
- experience
- familiar