Year 5 and 6 Statutory Spelling Words, Part 2: Choose the Correct Spelling
Circle the correct spelling of each statutory Years 5 and 6 word in Part 2 among misspelled distractors, with an answer key.
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Year 5 and 6 Statutory Spelling Words, Part 2: Choose the Correct Spelling
Only one spelling in each row is correct. Circle the correct spelling of the statutory word.
Word bank
EquipFortyHarassForeignDevelopFamiliarDefiniteHindranceGuaranteeDesperateCriticiseEmbarrassExcellentExistenceCuriosityExaggerateDeterminedEspeciallyDictionaryCorrespondGovernmentFrequentlyDisastrousExplanationEnvironment
- 1.Which spelling is correct?
- a) corespond
- b) correspond
- c) corraspond
- 2.Which spelling is correct?
- a) criticise
- b) critacise
- c) craticise
- 3.Which spelling is correct?
- a) curaosity
- b) curiosity
- c) curiosaty
- 4.Which spelling is correct?
- a) dafinite
- b) defanite
- c) definite
- 5.Which spelling is correct?
- a) desperete
- b) desperite
- c) desperate
- 6.Which spelling is correct?
- a) detarmined
- b) datermined
- c) determined
- 7.Which spelling is correct?
- a) davelop
- b) develop
- c) devalop
- 8.Which spelling is correct?
- a) dactionary
- b) dictionary
- c) dictionery
- 9.Which spelling is correct?
- a) disastrous
- b) disestrous
- c) disastrus
- 10.Which spelling is correct?
- a) embarass
- b) emberrass
- c) embarrass
- 11.Which spelling is correct?
- a) environment
- b) environmant
- c) envaronment
- 12.Which spelling is correct?
- a) equip
- b) equap
- c) equep
- 13.Which spelling is correct?
- a) especialy
- b) especielly
- c) especially
- 14.Which spelling is correct?
- a) exaggerite
- b) exagerate
- c) exaggerate
- 15.Which spelling is correct?
- a) excellent
- b) excellant
- c) excelent
- 16.Which spelling is correct?
- a) existence
- b) existance
- c) exastence
- 17.Which spelling is correct?
- a) explanetion
- b) explanation
- c) explenation
- 18.Which spelling is correct?
- a) femiliar
- b) familiar
- c) familier
- 19.Which spelling is correct?
- a) foriegn
- b) foraign
- c) foreign
- 20.Which spelling is correct?
- a) foryt
- b) forty
- c) furty
- 21.Which spelling is correct?
- a) frequantly
- b) frequently
- c) fraquently
- 22.Which spelling is correct?
- a) governmant
- b) government
- c) govarnment
- 23.Which spelling is correct?
- a) guarante
- b) guarantee
- c) guerantee
- 24.Which spelling is correct?
- a) harass
- b) herass
- c) haras
- 25.Which spelling is correct?
- a) hindrence
- b) hindrance
- c) handrance
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- DfE, English Appendix 1: Spelling (statutory) — Statutory word lists, spelling rules and example words are reproduced verbatim from the DfE appendix under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright).