Spelling Test Buddy offers a comprehensive list of Eighth Grade Spelling word lists. Use these words in your 8th grade spelling curriculum or to build custom Worksheets.
Our Eighth Grade spelling words are broken down into a scope and sequence across 25 lists to take you from the first day of school, through the whole school year.
Each list contains 15 spelling words.
These words align with the following standards:
- CCSS ELA: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.2.e
- Next Generation Learning Standards: NGLS ELA.8.L.2
Generate custom spelling and phonics worksheets with these words
Do you want to generate worksheets for definition match, word hunt, cloze (fill in the blank), flash cards, sound sorts, Morphology word matrices, and more?
Simply find the word list you want to use below, then tap on “Generate Worksheet” to get started. This will take you to Worksheet Creator.
You then pick the worksheet template you want to use, edit your list of words, and generate your worksheet.
Then, print, download, or share your worksheet.
Create a spelling test that reads Eighth Grade spelling words out loud to my students
Create a self-paced audio spelling test from these Eighth Grade lists with Spelling Test Buddy. Students hear a clear recording of each word and can listen to a sentence that illustrates the word in context.
The audio can be replayed before students type and submit their spelling, allowing them to move through the test independently without losing consistent pronunciation. Use an Eighth Grade list below or customize a list with the exact words and sentences your class is studying. Teach Me, Digital Sorts, and spelling games add focused practice beyond the test itself.
Try this sample test from the first Word List below.
Word Lists
| List | Words | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrangement, discernible, contiguous, antiseptic, collateral, absorbent, grotesque, disoblige, frivolous, erroneous, franchise, eligible, amorous, diurnal, allot | |
| 2 | discrepancy, epidemic, belligerent, apostrophe, besieged, bachelor, melodious, flamboyant, haphazard, perseverance, headquarters, facade, malady, noticeable, amnesty | |
| 3 | obscure, permeate, luncheon, insufficient, mischievous, phenomenon, inevitable, internal, fashionable, gorgeous, ominous, mesmerize, outrageous, anonymous, colonel | |
| 4 | berserk, biographical, consequence, obsolete, malignant, controversy, dilemma, architect, asphalt, correlation, miscellaneous, unpredictable, scholar, protein, subtlety | |
| 5 | unsanitary, questionnaire, radioactive, precipice, schism, prosperous, vulnerable, undernourished, sacrificial, interrogate, lieutenant, frivolous, fiasco, mercenary, integrity | |
| 6 | malicious, indulgence, fiery, meteor, incidentally, nostalgia, obesity, extricate, desolate, forgery, criticism, discernible, gymnasium, discrepancy, honorary | |
| 7 | colleague, barometer, escalator, circumference, besieged, apology, extremely, obstinate, innumerable, longevity, pageant, minimize, prestigious, negligence, frostbitten | |
| 8 | unenforceable, unacceptable, serviceable, recurrent, semester, precocious, studious, vivacious, tyranny, technically, propeller, precipice, faux, personage, preposterous | |
| 9 | paucity, impediment, quantitative, recyclable, dystopia, subconscious, depravity, forensics, fantastic, interrogative, unforeseeable, audacious, verbiage, amateurish, mitigate | |
| 10 | duplicity, demise, flummoxed, compile, lease, cosset, affable, fulminate, stentorian, acme, efface, aggress, equable, personage, apportion | |
| 11 | insurrection, empirical, geologist, cerebellum, solitaire, anxiety, nominative, cadre, sensational, perpendicular, transmitting, deferred, forbidden, oppress, barbecue | |
| 12 | pollen, undoubtedly, affidavit, commemorate, conferred, incurred, wholly, conqueror, acquitted, saturate, installation, unforgettable, summon, preferred, integral | |
| 13 | vinegar, criminal, succulent, occasionally, experimental, tendency, fiscal, literal, malfunction, prejudice, myriad, monarch, dissatisfaction, decompose, dissolve | |
| 14 | contraband, epitaph, presuppose, epidermis, proposal, deplete, abstain, detour, premier, monolith, abolish, eulogy, annihilate, affable, descendent | |
| 15 | distort, aggravate, decanter, malevolent, affiliate, benign, abhor, contrast, deception, prelude, aggressive, terrain, affirmative, contrary, announcement | |
| 16 | duplex, documentary, inaccurate, synthesis, eclipse, syntax, molecular, octagon, aristocrat, synagogue, incognito, cosmopolitan, bureaucracy, anesthesia, coexist | |
| 17 | impatient, immaculate, nonchalant, criticize, archive, auditor, indecisive, syllable, synthesis, exhilarated, liability, preliminary, competent, opaque, geographical | |
| 18 | attendant, jubilant, pleasant, emphatically, parable, practicality, similarity, etiquette, infirmary, tranquil, compulsory, itemize, generosity, yeast, relevant | |
| 19 | predicate, diagnose, manicurist, analyst, perennial, alliteration, dilemma, exclamation, apostrophe, arbitrator, infinitive, fragment, representative, comedian, modifying | |
| 20 | marriage, peculiar, paraphrase, satellite, voltage, indigestion, parody, primitive, exposition, parenthesis, therapist, acronym, interrogative, preposition, homonym | |
| 21 | transitive, microorganism, proprietor, idiom, turbine, respiration, iodine, transfusion, fungus, neutron, physics, obstacle, conjunction, caricature, analogy | |
| 22 | accomplice, personification, veterinarian, proverb, allegory, situation, stanza, couplet, narrative, biography, maximum, hydrant, inaccurate, verdict, coincide | |
| 23 | preliminary, expenditure, simultaneously, democracy, ordinance, symphonic, synchronize, coherent, anagram, vermin, neon, incognito, symmetry, suspense, controversial | |
| 24 | excursion, predecessor, customary, duplicate, octagon, economical, territory, applicable, lateral, aquarium, speculate, perspective, exclude, variation, terrain | |
| 25 | coexist, auditor, concentric, matrimony, defenseless, seclusion, liberate, quadrilateral, advocate, barometer, insecticide, impatiently, syllable, archaic, criticize |