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Dear Student
If you are here after completing our 1st and 2nd grade spelling lists, you know the drill. Get to it.
In case this is your first time, you might want to check out the 1st grade Spelling Words as well as the 2nd grade Spelling Words.
Afterwards, you will be able to understand if you have those words at your grasp and whether or not you can move to the 3rd grade spelling words’ list.
As you jump into this spelling words list targeted towards 3rd grade students, you’ll see that the words are getting a bit longer.
Remember, these lists are prepared after thorough research on different national level spelling bee competitions.
Hence, the words are carefully chosen to help 3rd graders with their spelling, vocabulary, and for their future spelling bee endeavors.
Introduction
This list contains spelling words that are often seen in spelling bees for third graders.
This comprehensive list contains a lot of new words, most of which will seem unknown at first.
The list also introduces a lot of compound words to the students, and also shows them the breakdown of these words into their simpler forms.
The spelling bee word list for 3rd graders will challenge students, and help them overcome those very challenges at the same time.
By studying this list, anyone can easily ace the spelling bee competitions that are specifically organized for third graders. If you want to get more out of this list, be sure to add them to your Spelling Bee Ninja app, and use the Spelling Trainer feature to enjoy some interactive learning experience.
Use this list to train for the spelling bee, organize quizzes at school and improve your vocabulary.
3rd grade Spelling Words
Here is our featured spelling words list for grade 3 students. You can find this list among the featured Spelling Bee Ninja words list and use it to take spelling tests.
PDF, Flashcards and SBN formats
Hera are links to the 3rd grader words list in pdf, the second is a document containing flashcards ready to be printed and used for your training or word games, while the third link brings directly to the list within our spelling training app.
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3rd grade Spelling words definitions
Check some definitions for some of the trickiest words of this list, you can get spelling bee related insights for each word by clicking it in the first table.
| Fuzz | To make drunk. – Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter. – To fly off in minute particles. |
| Prop | A shell, used as a die. See Props. – To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. – That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building. |
| Barefoot | With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings. |
| Batch | The quantity of bread baked at one time. – A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. |
| Grip | The griffin. – A small ditch or furrow. – To trench; to drain. – An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping. – A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip. – That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword. – A device for grasping or holding fast to something. – To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe. |
| Harvest | The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. – That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit. – The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. – To reap or gather, as any crop. |
| Howled | To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. – To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. – To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. – To utter with outcry. – The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound. – A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail. |
| Claw | A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird. – The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc. – Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails. – A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. – To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails. – To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. – To rail at; to scold. – To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. |
| Compost | A mixture; a compound. – A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. – To manure with compost. – To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost. |
| Topical | Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege. – Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics. – Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument. |
| Limp | To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively. – A halt; the act of limping. – A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve. – Flaccid; flabby, as flesh. – Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat. |
| Tulip | Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers. |
| Dull | Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. – Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. – Insensible; unfeeling. – Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. – Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror. – Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. – Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. – To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. – To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. – To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. – To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. – To become dull or stupid. |
| Usher | An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc. – An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school. – To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; — sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. |
| Vast | Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. – Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. – Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. – Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. – A waste region; boundless space; immensity. |
| Eyelid | The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure. |
| Fireplace | The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; — usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built. |
| Padlock | A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, — used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc. – Fig.: A curb; a restraint. – To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock. |
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1st grade Spelling Words
2nd grade Spelling Words
3rd grade Spelling Words
4th grade Spelling Words
5th grade Spelling Words
6th grade Spelling Words
7th grade Spelling Words
8th grade Spelling Words
High School Spelling Words
Very Difficult Spelling Words
Hard Words to spell
Arabic words
Asian words
Latin words
Japanese words
Spanish words
Dolch Words for first graders
Dolch Words for second graders
Dolch Words for third graders
Dolch words nouns
Most difficult SAT words
