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Spelling Bee Word List: 90 Practice Words by Level

Spelling Bee Word List: 90 Practice Words by Level

Quick answer: This spelling bee word list gives you 90 practice words in three levels: easy, medium and hard. Start at the level where you miss about two words in ten, study 10 to 15 words a day, and say each word out loud before you spell it.

By Grace Morgan · Published October 26, 2026

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Easy spelling bee words

apple, basket, candle, garden, happy, jacket, kitten, lemon, monkey, orange, pencil, rabbit, summer, turtle, window, yellow, dragon, planet, rocket, spider, button, cookie, family, forest, island, ladder, magic, number, ocean, pocket

Medium spelling bee words

balloon, believe, calendar, chocolate, different, dinosaur, elephant, favorite, February, guitar, holiday, important, library, measure, museum, octopus, neighbor, question, receive, science, special, surprise, telephone, tomorrow, umbrella, vegetable, weather, yesterday, beautiful, Wednesday

Hard spelling bee words

accommodate, acquaintance, bureaucracy, camouflage, catastrophe, conscientious, definitely, embarrass, exhilarate, fluorescent, gauge, hierarchy, hypocrisy, irresistible, kaleidoscope, liaison, maintenance, millennium, mischievous, necessary, occurrence, onomatopoeia, perseverance, pharaoh, questionnaire, rhythm, silhouette, surveillance, threshold, vacuum

Want even tougher words? See our hardest spelling bee words guide.

How to study this word list

  1. Test first. Have someone read 10 words from a level. If you get 8 or more right, move up.
  2. Learn by pattern. Group words with double letters (balloon, embarrass), silent letters (rhythm, pharaoh) or French endings (questionnaire, liaison).
  3. Spell out loud. Real spelling bees are oral, so practice the way you will compete.
  4. Keep a missed-words list and retest it every day for a week.

Official spelling bee lists

For school, regional and national competitions, always study the list published by the organizer of your bee. For example, Scripps publishes study materials for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Use this page as extra practice alongside those lists, together with our words by grade and practice routine.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

No. This is a free practice list made by Spell Bee Online. Official competition study lists are published by the organizers of each bee, such as Scripps for the National Spelling Bee.

Most students do well with 10 to 15 new words a day plus a quick review of words they missed earlier.

Group words by pattern or language of origin, spell them aloud, write them once, and test yourself again the next day.

Use this list with a parent or friend, and play the free honeycomb game on Spelling Bee Unlimited to build vocabulary every day.

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