Spelling words for 5th grade: words with Greek and Latin roots, unstressed vowels that are hard to hear, and spellings borrowed from other languages. Knowing a root, such as spec for looking or flex for bending, helps a speller with a whole family of words at once, so it is worth reading each word's meaning as well as learning its letters.
The spelling bee list is the harder half, with words of the kind a school bee asks in its later rounds. Tap any word to hear it pronounced and see what it means, or press a practice button to spell a set of words at the same level.
Updated October 15, 2026.
30 classroom words from level 3 and 20 spelling bee words from level 4 of the nine Spelling Bee Hive levels.
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