Year 6 Autumn 1: Spelling Wordlist 31
Regular Spellings
ought, bought, thought,
advice, advise, device, devise
vicious, precious, conscious,
nought, brought, fought,
licence, license, practice,
delicious, malicious,
rough, tough, enough, cough,
practice, prophecy, prophesy
suspicious, ambitious,
though, although, dough
vicious, precious, conscious,
cautious, fictitious, infectious,
through, thorough, borough
delicious, malicious,
nutritious, farther, further,
plough, official, special,
suspicious, ambitious,
father, guessed, guest, heard,
artificial, partial, confidential,
cautious, fictitious, infectious,
herd, led, lead, morning,
essential, observant,
observance,
nutritious, innocent,
mourning, past, passed,
innocence, decent, decency,
precede, proceed, principal,
(observation), expectant
frequent, frequency, confident,
principle, profit, prophet
(expectation), hesitant,
confidence (confidential)
stationary, stationery, steal,
hesitancy (hesitation),
assistant, assistance,
steel, wary, weary, who’s,
tolerant, tolerance
obedient, obedience,
whose, aisle, isle, aloud,
(toleration), substance
independent, independence
allowed, affect, effect
(substantial), referring,
adorable/adorably (adoration),
referred, referral, preferring,
applicable/applicably
possible, possibly, horrible,
horribly, terrible, terribly,
preferred, transferring,
(application),
transferred, changeable,
considerable/considerably
visible, visibly, incredible,
incredibly, sensible, sensibly
deceive, conceive, receive,
noticeable, forcible, legible
(consideration),
dependable, comfortable,
tolerable/tolerably (toleration)
understandable, reasonable,
reference, referee,
perceive, ceiling, altar, alter,
ascent, assent, bridal, bridle,
cereal, serial
enjoyable, reliable
preference, transference
compliment, complement,
doubt, island, lamb, solemn,
co-ordinate, re-enter,
descent, dissent
thistle, knight
co-operate, co-own
Common Exception Words
accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent,
appreciate, attached, available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery,
committee, communicate, community, competition, conscience, conscious, controversy,
convenience, correspond, criticise, curiosity, definite, desperate, determined, develop, dictionary,
disastrous, embarrass, environment, equip (–ped, –ment), especially, exaggerate, excellent,
existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, forty, frequently, government, guarantee, harass,
hindrance, identity, immediate(ly), individual, interfere, interrupt, language, leisure, lightning,
marvellous, mischievous, muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance, occupy, occur, opportunity,
parliament, persuade, physical, prejudice, privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation,
queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary,
shoulder, signature, sincere(ly), soldier, stomach, sufficient, suggest, symbol, system,
temperature, thorough, twelfth, variety, vegetable, vehicle, yacht