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Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling words

All 100 statutory words for years 3 and 4 in England, in 10 sets of 10. Each set opens as a ready practice packet.

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Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling words in 10 sets
SetWords, as the document writes themA4 pagesPacket
1accident(ally), actual(ly), address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath, breathe13 Edit set 1
2build, busy/business, calendar, caught, centre, century, certain, circle, complete, consider13 Edit set 2
3continue, decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear, early, earth, eight/eighth, enough13 Edit set 3
4exercise, experience, experiment, extreme, famous, favourite, February, forward(s), fruit, grammar13 Edit set 4
5group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important13 Edit set 5
6interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute13 Edit set 6
7natural, naughty, notice, occasion(ally), often, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps13 Edit set 7
8popular, position, possess(ion), possible, potatoes, pressure, probably, promise, purpose, quarter13 Edit set 8
9question, recent, regular, reign, remember, sentence, separate, special, straight, strange13 Edit set 9
10strength, suppose, surprise, therefore, though/although, thought, through, various, weight, woman/women13 Edit set 10

Source: English Appendix 1: Spelling, part of the national curriculum in England (Department for Education, 2013), read on 2026-11-10. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Spellwren is not affiliated with the Department for Education. The sets are our own split.

What each packet holds

A teacher page, a Monday to Thursday homework menu, trace and write, word shapes, ABC order, missing letters, word scramble, word search, look-cover-write-check, a test sheet and answer keys: 13 A4 pages for every set. Press Edit to change the words, the line size or the paper before you download.

Make a packet from your own listLook, cover, write, check only

Questions

Are the years 3 and 4 spelling words statutory?

Yes. The spelling appendix says: "The word-lists for years 3 and 4 and years 5 and 6 are statutory."

How many words are on the list?

100. The appendix says: "Some of the listed words may be thought of as quite challenging, but the 100 words in each list can easily be taught within the four years of key stage 2 alongside other words that teachers consider appropriate."

Why do some entries show two forms?

The document prints some entries with a second form, such as accident(ally), actual(ly), busy/business. The table shows each entry as written. A packet uses the first form, and Edit opens the set with the other forms as challenge words.

Is the split into sets official?

No. The document gives one list, in alphabetical order except that it prints increase before important. The 10 sets of 10 are ours, in the order the document prints the words, so that each set fits a free packet.

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