Year 3 and 4 Statutory Spelling Words – the Full List of 100 Words

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The full Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling words list (100 words)

accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business
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(s)
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(ally)
often
opposite
ordinary
particular
peculiar
perhaps
popular
position
possess(ion)
possible
potatoes
pressure
probably
promise
purpose
quarter
question
recent
regular
reign
remember
sentence
separate
special
straight
strange
strength
suppose
surprise
therefore
though/although
thought
through
various
weight
woman/women

Source: National Curriculum in England, English Appendix 1: Spelling (DfE)

Schools often call these the Year 3 and 4 common exception words. The National Curriculum calls them the statutory word list for Years 3 and 4, and children are expected to learn to spell all 100 by the end of Year 4.

What it covers

All 100 words from the Years 3–4 statutory word list
A printable word list
A printable look–say–cover–write–check sheet

Who it's for

Children in Years 3 and 4 (ages 7–9).

How to use it

Learn 10 words a week rather than all of them at once.
Use look–say–cover–write–check: look at the word, say it, cover it, write it from memory, then check.
Use each word in a sentence of your own, spoken first and then written.