Year 5 and 6 Spelling Patterns: -ant or -ent, -able or -ible, -fer Words
Circle the correct spelling in each Year 5 and 6 pair (observant, independent, possible, noticeable, referring and more against misspelled distractors).
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Year 5 and 6 Spelling Patterns: -ant or -ent, -able or -ible, -fer Words
Only one spelling in each pair is correct. Circle the correct spelling.
Word bank
VisibleReliableObedientTerribleInnocentHesitantPossibleTolerantFrequentReferencePreferredReferringObservantAssistantNoticeableIndependent
- 1.Which spelling is correct?
- a) observant
- b) observent
- 2.Which spelling is correct?
- a) hesitent
- b) hesitant
- 3.Which spelling is correct?
- a) tolerent
- b) tolerant
- 4.Which spelling is correct?
- a) innocent
- b) innocant
- 5.Which spelling is correct?
- a) frequent
- b) frequant
- 6.Which spelling is correct?
- a) obediant
- b) obedient
- 7.Which spelling is correct?
- a) independent
- b) independant
- 8.Which spelling is correct?
- a) assistent
- b) assistant
- 9.Which spelling is correct?
- a) possable
- b) possible
- 10.Which spelling is correct?
- a) terrible
- b) terrable
- 11.Which spelling is correct?
- a) visible
- b) visable
- 12.Which spelling is correct?
- a) noticable
- b) noticeable
- 13.Which spelling is correct?
- a) reliable
- b) relyable
- 14.Which spelling is correct?
- a) refering
- b) referring
- 15.Which spelling is correct?
- a) prefered
- b) preferred
- 16.Which spelling is correct?
- a) referance
- b) reference
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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).