Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling words
The statutory spelling list for Years 3 and 4 (lower Key Stage 2) from the National Curriculum in England.
109 words, in alphabetical order.
- accident
- accidentally
- actual
- actually
- address
- although
- answer
- appear
- arrive
- believe
- bicycle
- breath
- breathe
- build
- business
- busy
- calendar
- caught
- centre
- century
- certain
- circle
- complete
- consider
- continue
- decide
- describe
- different
- difficult
- disappear
- early
- earth
- eight
- eighth
- enough
- exercise
- experience
- experiment
- extreme
- famous
- favourite
- February
- forward
- forwards
- fruit
- grammar
- group
- guard
- guide
- heard
- heart
- height
- history
- imagine
- important
- increase
- interest
- island
- knowledge
- learn
- length
- library
- material
- medicine
- mention
- minute
- natural
- naughty
- notice
- occasion
- occasionally
- often
- opposite
- ordinary
- particular
- peculiar
- perhaps
- popular
- position
- possess
- possession
- possible
- potatoes
- pressure
- probably
- promise
- purpose
- quarter
- question
- recent
- regular
- reign
- remember
- sentence
- separate
- special
- straight
- strange
- strength
- suppose
- surprise
- therefore
- though
- thought
- through
- various
- weight
- woman
- women
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