CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY ENGLISH 6 SPELLING LISTS

Spelling lists
How to use the spelling lists
These spelling lists are a supplement to the Spelling activities at the back of the Learner’s
Book. They are a teacher resource and can be used at your discretion.
The 18 lists, each with 15 words per list, provide examples of words following particular
letter patterns or spelling rules. They are not organised as lists to be learned per week;
rather they are for you to draw on for reference or to prepare as lists for display in the
classroom, for example, although groups of spelling words may be given as a
learning / homework task if this fits in with your school’s philosophy of teaching spelling.
Drill is just one element of learning to spell, and progress cannot be measured according
to whether a prescribed set of words can be written out correctly in a test, out of
context.

1 our 2 ance, ence 3 unstressed

behaviour appearance admiral
colour appliance battery
flavour audience definite
glamour balance desperate
harbour circumference family
honour circumstance favourite
hour distance general
humour entrance history
journal essence memory
journey experience parliament
labour nuisance prisoner
neighbour sentence secondary
odour sequence several
rumour silence vacuum
vapour substance Wednesday

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4 ap, app 5 af, aff 6 al, all

apartment affair alert
apex affect algebra
apology affection alien
apparel affectionate alive
appeal affix allergic
appear affliction allergy
appetite affluent alliance
applaud afford allowed
apple afloat almond
applied afraid alone
appoint afresh along
approach after aloud
apricot aftercare alpine
apron afternoon also
aptitude afterwards alternate

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7 contractions 8 ge/dge 9 unusual plurals

I’m (I am) average crisis/crises
he’s (he is) bridge oasis/oases
that’s (that is) fudge die/dice
I’ll (I will) gadget medium/media
she’ll (she will) grudge vertex/vertices
we’ll (we will) heritage index/indices
isn’t (is not) judge curriculum/curricula
aren’t (are not) knowledge phenomenon/phenomena
won’t (will not) lodge radius/radii
shan’t (shall not) message syllabus/syllabi
can’t (cannot) nudge octopus/octopi
shouldn’t (should not) ridge scissors
wouldn’t (would not) rummage trousers
doesn’t (does not) village spectacles
o’clock (of the clock) wedge binoculars

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10 k sound 11 sh sound 12 ei not after c

accomplish brochure beige
ache charlatan counterfeit
acknowledge chef eight
broccoli cliché eighteen
cartoon machine eighth
cauliflower mention either
character mushroom feign
chemist nation foreign
chorus parachute forfeit
courtesy ration heir
cracker shoulder heirloom
cushion shuffle neigh
melancholy sugar neither
second tissue vein
stomach vicious weight

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13 cian/ch 14 tion 15 sion

beautician action collision
dietician caution conclusion
electrician celebration confusion
magician conservation decision
mathematician conversation division
paediatrician description erosion
physician direction explosion
politician examination extension
approachable exhibition inclusion
champion fraction invasion
chief information occasion
chilli multiplication persuasion
chimney precaution revision
chisel prediction supervision
churlish quotation version

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16 ssion 17 suffixes 18 ic
admission analogy angelic
aggression apprenticeship athletic
discussion archaeology atomic
expression biology electric
impression brotherhood energetic
mission championship epidemic
passion childhood gigantic
percussion cosmology heroic
permission friendship historic
possession membership mechanic
procession motherhood metallic
profession neighbourhood organic
progression ownership poetic
session partnership specific
succession zoology volcanic

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