Fleckney Primary School - Year 6 Spellings
Week 1 (-ed)
Week 2 (/shun/ sound)
Week 3 (-ant)
Rule: Past tense verbs that end in –ed
Rule: -cian (for words describing jobs),
-tion (as a suffix linked to actions), -sion
(often for emotive words and adjectives)
and –tian.
Rule: Use –ant if there is a related word
with a/ae/ei sound in the right position;
–ation endings are often a clue.
echoed, uncoiled, disturbed, stretched,
disappeared, absorbed, designed,
developed, remained and transformed
transported, discovered, rehearsed,
postponed and aggravated
Week 4 (-ent)
friction, instruction, attention, invention,
permission, comprehension, revision,
magician, electrician and technician
collision, persuasion, conversion,
possession, conservation
Week 5 (-ent)
brilliant, relevant, servant, assistant,
constant, pleasant, hesitant, infant, tolerant,
important
participant , significant, restaurant,
observant, expectant
Week 6 (-ie- or –ei- words)
Rule: Use –ent after soft c, soft g and qu, or Rule: Use –ent after soft c, soft g and qu, or Rule: ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’.
if there is a related word with a clear e
if there is a related word with a clear e
Exceptions include: protein, caffeine, seize,
sound in the right position.
sound in the right position.
either, neither.
moment, present, patient, student, client,
document, current, incident, agent,
excellent
equivalent, independent, sufficient,
apparent, experiment
ancient, talent, urgent, silent, accent,
confident, consistent, violent, innocent,
decent
permanent, tournament, opponent,
apparent, frequent
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pierce, receive, deceive, receipt, believe,
audience, relief, shriek, sieve, priest.
grievous, reprieve, besiege, perceive,
lieutenant
Week 7 (-able)
Week 8 (-ible)
Week 9 (-cious)
Rule: The –able ending is used if there is a
related word ending in –ation. The –able
ending is usually, but not always, used if a
complete root word can be heard before it.
Rule: The –ible ending is less common. It
is often used when a complete root word
cannot be heard before it.
Rule: If the root word ends in –ce, the /sh/
sound is spelt as c, e.g. vice – vicious,
grace – gracious, space – spacious, malice
– malicious.
predictable, comfortable, inevitable,
fashionable, dependable, valuable,
reasonable, enjoyable, reliable, tolerable,
changeable, noticeable, applicable,
questionable, understandable
possible, flexible, incredible, horrible,
terrible, sensible, visible, legible, audible,
edible
responsible, susceptible, irresistible,
permissible, accessible
vicious, precious, conscious, delicious,
suspicious, spacious, gracious, luscious
malicious, atrocious
tenacious, ferocious, subconscious,
vivacious, audacious
Week 10 (-tious)
Week 11 (-ly)
Week 12 (homophones part 1)
Rule: If the root word ends in –ce, the /sh/
sound is spelt as c, e.g. vice – vicious,
grace – gracious, space – spacious, malice
– malicious
Rule: Just add –ly to create an adverb
Rule: These words sound the same but they
are spelt differently and have different
meanings. You need to understand the
meaning of each word so that you know
when to use each word.
cautious, ambitious, infectious, nutritious,
fictitious, fractious, tortuous, vexatious,
pretentious, anxious
superstitious, contentious, conscientious
(only 3 this week as they are tricky!)
importantly, extremely, effortlessly,
definitely, accurately confidently,
thoroughly, frequently, supposedly,
cautiously
their, there, they’re
where, wear, were
apprehensively, independently,
accidentally, approximately, particularly too, to, two
which, witch
for, four
here, hear
hour, our, are
Who’s, whose (20 words)
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Week 13 (homophones part 2)
Week 14 (-ough)
Week 15 (soft ‘c’ words)
Rule: See week 12.
Rule: -ough is one of the trickiest spellings
in English. It can be used to spell a number
of different sounds.
Rule: These words all have a soft ‘c’ that
sounds like an ‘s’.
steel/steal aisle/isle, aloud/allowed,
weary/wary, desert/dessert
descent/dissent, draft/draught,
stationary/stationery
(6 words)
ought, bought, thought, rough, tough,
enough, though, although, through,
thorough
audience, centre, century, excellent,
exciting, necessary, notice, silence,
precious, currency
celebrate, cinnamon, circumnavigate,
certificate, participate
Week 16 (suffixes)
forethought, breakthrough,
thoroughfare, thoughtfulness,
thoroughness
Week 17 (compound words)
Rule: These suffixes alter the meaning of
the root word - often with regard to action
or strength of meaning.
Rule: Compound words are created when
two words are joined together to make a
new word.
Rule: These words all contain letters which
cannot be heard when the word is said
aloud.
beautiful, carefully, colourful, effortless,
hopeful, regardless, successful, wonderful,
responsible, additional.
countryside, headquarters, themselves,
throughout, background, courtyard,
eyewitness, downstairs, fingerprint,
guesswork
doubt, island, different, interesting, known,
gnaw, gnome, solemn, thistle, knight
photographic, occasional, energetic,
comprehensive, specialist
underestimate, championship,
masterpiece, neighbourhood,
straightforward
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Week 18 (silent letters)
environment, government, knowledge,
campaign, honeycomb
Week 19 (double consonants)
Week 20 (-cial)
Week 21 (–tial)
Rule: These words all have double
consonants to protect a short vowel sound.
Rule: -cial is common after a vowel letter
and –tial after a consonant letter.
Exceptions: initial, financial, commercial,
provincial.
Rule: -cial is common after a vowel letter
and –tial after a consonant letter.
Exceptions: initial, financial, commercial,
provincial.
social, special, official, financial,
commercial, crucial, artificial, beneficial,
facial, unofficial
potential, essential, initial, partial,
confidential, impartial, torrential, palatial,
martial, residential,
superficial, antisocial, provincial,
sacrificial, prejudicial
substantial, influential, preferential,
presidential, spatial
Week 22 (-ance)
Week 23 (-ence)
Week 24 (-ancy and –ency)
Rule: Use -ance if there is a related word
with a/ae/ei sound in the right position;
–ation endings are often a clue.
Rule: Use –ence after soft c, soft g and qu,
or if there is a related word with a clear e
sound in the right position.
Rule: See previous rules for –ant, -ent,
-ance, and –ence
common, different, difficult, excellent,
opposite, passenger, pollution, slippery,
permission, currency
apprehensive, successful, opportunity,
commemorate, garrison
performance, importance, balance,
distance, entrance, reluctance, elegance,
ambulance, nuisance, insurance
appearance, circumstance, significance,
resistance, maintenance
defence, evidence, difference, influence,
science, presence, sentence, audience,
absence, sequence
conference, reference, experience,
intelligence, independence
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vacancy, infancy, hesitancy, agency,
emergency, currency, efficiency,
frequency, tendency, decency
potency, expectancy, occupancy, fluency,
consistency
Week 25 (adding suffixes to –fer)
Week 26 (-ce and -se)
Week 27 (homophones part 3)
Rule: The r is doubled if the –fer is still
Rule: Nouns end in –ce (good advice) and
stressed when the ending is added. The r is verbs end in –se (you advise us). It is
not doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed. important to understand whether the word
is being used as a noun or a verb in the
referred, referring, referral, reference,
sentence.
referee, differed, differing, offering,
suffering, preference
advice/advise, device/devise,
licence/license, practice/practise, prophecy,
prophesy.
transferring, transference, preferring,
deferred, conferred
(10 words in total this week)
Rule: See week 12 or 13
Week 28 (superlatives)
Week 29 (prefixes)
Week 30 (common words)
Rule: The superlative is the form of an
adjective or adverb that expresses the
highest degree of quality.
Rule: A prefix is a group of letters placed at Here are 15 ‘common’ words that cover a
the start of a word which changes its
range of different spelling rules. Can you
meaning.
spell them all?
biggest, largest, nastiest, tallest, widest,
heaviest, smallest, naughtiest, angriest,
liveliest
antibiotic, postpone, semicircle, interface,
coordinate, irrelevant, translate, irrational,
interdependence, forethought
loneliest, clumsiest, creepiest, friendliest,
healthiest
hypercritical, irresponsible,
intermediate, semiconscious
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altar/alter, bridal/bridle, father/farther,
guessed/guest, herd/heard
compliment/complement, profit/prophet,
cereal/serial
(6 words)
amongst, audience, between, capable,
complete, mysterious, purpose, realistic,
serious, silence, symbol, technique, luxury,
delicate, ordinary
Fleckney Primary School - Year 6 Spellings
This document contains all of the spellings that you will be asked to learn for the whole of the school year. Please keep it in a safe place. If
you lose your copy, you will able to download a duplicate from the school website at: www.fleckney.leics.sch.uk
Each week, your Home Learning sheet will refer to this document and tell you which set of spellings you need to learn (there is a week
number written in each box). The spellings all fit into a ‘rule’. Remember to read this rule and try to understand it. However, it doesn’t
matter if you do not fully understand the rule, just concentrate on learning the spellings!
The best way to learn the spellings is by using the ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’ method. Look at the word, say it aloud, cover it up,
write it out and then check it. Doing a little bit each day is better than trying to learn them all in one night! You can use the back of your
Home Learning book to practise writing them out if you wish to.
For most of the weeks, there are 10 spellings for everyone to learn. If you are a confident speller, you may wish to learn the 5 words that
are underneath in bold. When we assess these spellings in class, you can choose to stop after 10 or try all 15 words.
Nearly all of the words are taken from the new 2014 national curriculum document. We appreciate that some weeks are more challenging
than others so just try to do your best. Many of the words in bold are even more challenging than the words referred to in the national
curriculum. We have included these because we know that many of you enjoy a challenge!
Learning your spellings will help with both your reading and your writing so it is important that you treat it as a key part of your Home
Learning activity each week.
Good luck!
Mr. O’Connell
Fleckney School – Year 6 Spellings (J. O’Connell – August 2014)