All 1,200 Rocket Spelling Words
Over the past few days, we've broken down all 1,200 Rocket Spelling words by grade level. Here are of those words, by level, in one convenient place.
Level 1.1 Short 'a' words: had, can, has, am, man, map, ran, sat, cat, dad
Level 1.2 Short 'e' words: net, get, beg, pen, let, red, yes, yet, bed, leg
Level 1.3 Short 'i' words: it, his, him, did, big, if, hit, fit, win, in
Level 1.4 Short 'o' words: not, got, top, box, hot, job, lot, on, mom, dot
Level 1.5 Short 'u' words: but, run, cut, dug, fun, cup, bug, us, nut, up
Level 1.6 Mixed short vowels: bad, hat, ham, pet, hug, pig, sit, pot, rug, hop
Level 1.7 High frequency list A: the, and, to, of, be, we, do, me, no, go
Level 1.8 High frequency list B: so, he, was, are, as, she, my, you, is, at
Level 2.1 Initial ch, sh, or th: that, then, them, shut, chin, this, they, than, chat, shop
Level 2.2 Initial __ + L blends: plan, clap, flip, slam, slip, glad, flag, sled, plus, slap
Level 2.3 Initial __ + R blends: from, trip, drip, drop, drum, trap, frog, brag, grin, grip
Level 2.4 Initial w vs. wh: who, what, when, where, why, which, with, went, while, were
Level 2.5 Other initial blends: stop, step, spin, skin, skip, snap, swim, spot, star, scarf
Level 2.6 High frequency list C: have, said, many, been, see, only, does, next, because, once
Level 2.7 High frequency list D: some, come, into, very, after, say, any, under, open, dog
Level 3.1 -ck endings: quick, sick, rock, block, sock, luck, neck, stack, lock, duck
Level 3.2 -ing endings: king, sing, ring, thing, bring, being, wing, sting, spring, doing
Level 3.3 -ch, -th, -sh endings: dish, much, such, both, fish, wish, rush, rash, bath, brush
Level 3.4 -ang, -ong, -ung endings: long, along, song, hung, rang, sang, among, hang, strong, belong
Level 3.5 Final __ + T blends: most, just, want, fact, belt, plant, start, left, list, best
Level 3.6 Final __ + K blends: work, think, ask, walk, talk, ink, dark, shark, bank, milk
Level 3.7 Final __ + D blends: hold, find, word, old, end, land, held, hard, stand, told
Level 3.8 Other final blends: help, jump, learn, lamp, barn, stamp, ramp, bump, horn, torn
Level 3.9 Double-consonant endings: ball, will, tell, less, off, full, miss, fall, class, puff
Level 3.10 Mixed final blend review: grass, kind, spell, last, wind, fast, drill, cold, must, short
Level 3.11 Three-letter blends: march, bench, tenth, branch, strap, shred, shrug, split, string, crunch
Level 3.12 Initial and final blends: splash, small, stick, charm, still, squint, sprint, truck, front, check
Level 3.13 High frequency list E: put, every, never, alone, often, until, soft, book, add, look
Level 3.14 High frequency list F: give, great, also, letter, hunt, else, live, second, idea, above
Level 4.1 Long a with silent e #1: make, made, take, wave, name, same, page, state, late, face
Level 4.2 Long a with silent e #2: gave, came, place, care, hate, save, case, safe, race, lake
Level 4.3 Long i with silent e: size, like, time, line, life, side, mile, dime, fire, fine
Level 4.4 Long o with silent e: more, home, rope, note, nose, hope, stone, bone, cone, vote
Level 4.5 Long u with silent e: use, rule, tube, cube, cute, tune, mute, cure, huge, rude
Level 4.6 Mixed long vowels with silent e: these, plate, code, ice, wide, mine, age, rise, wire, game
Level 4.7 Long e spelled with ee: tree, seem, sweet, speed, need, keep, seen, feel, deep, free
Level 4.8 Long e spelled with ea: near, eat, clean, year, means, heat, read, sea, beat, real
Level 4.9 'y' endings making a long e sound: study, story, body, city, country, ready, tiny, happy, heavy, funny
Level 4.10 Mixed long vowels with consonant blends: stripe, space, clear, those, store, shape, crime, flute, east, street
Level 4.11 High frequency list G: today, during, better, your, upon, too, reason, done, half, west
Level 4.12 High frequency list H: able, expect, without, even, move, sure, however, early, north, sign
Level 5.1 -ar, -or sounds: for, part, form, large, car, far, farm, stars, born, chart
Level 5.2 -er, -ir, -ur sounds: other, her, first, water, over, turn, bird, girl, third, burn
Level 5.3 oi vs. oy: boy, point, join, enjoy, oil, toys, soil, coin, joy, choice
Level 5.4 ai vs. ay #1: way, day, may, nail, air, pair, rain, hair, stay, gain
Level 5.5 ai vs. ay #2: train, stray, lay, play, raise, afraid, sail, fair, paint, main
Level 5.6 ou vs. ow: how, out, about, now, down, sound, our, around, house, south
Level 5.7 ow as a long o: below, show, grow, own, flow, throw, snow, grown, slow, low
Level 5.8 au vs. aw: saw, draw, straw, law, cause, sauce, pause, launch, dawn, haul
Level 5.9 ew vs. ue vs. oo: new, food, glue, few, soon, room, knew, true, moon, root
Level 5.10 oa vowel pairs: soar, coat, road, coast, boat, board, coach, float, groan, load
Level 5.11 Mixed vowel combos: grew, away, found, team, town, noun, power, count, amount, cows
Level 5.12 Vowel pairs with consonant blends: scream, throat, ground, mouth, cloud, shout, school, spoil, voice, noise
Level 5.13 High frequency list I: before, between, minute, Earth, eyes, begin, easy, color, ever, across
Level 5.14 High frequency list J: since, could, should, maybe, good, fruit, group, again, horse, number
Level 6.1 -ch vs. -tch: watch, each, scratch, itch, catch, patch, beach, teach, reach, stretch
Level 6.2 Long 'i' endings: 'y', 'ie', and 'igh': sky, high, lie, sigh, try, pie, fly, dry, tie, die
Level 6.3 'ight' patterns: right, light, might, night, sight, tight, bright, fight, fright, flight
Level 6.4 Different sounds for 'ough': enough, tough, rough, cough, although, dough, through, doughnut, toughen, though
Level 6.5 Silent letters: wr, kn: write, know, known, written, wrong, knife, knit, wrestle, knot, knock
Level 6.6 -tion vs -sion: fraction, action, reaction, nation, conclusion, equation, direction, section, mission, tension
Level 6.7 -cher vs. -ture vs. -sure: picture, future, nature, pitcher, pressure, capture, mixture, pleasure, treasure, adventure
Level 6.8 -le vs. -el endings: middle, single, nickel, tunnel, tickle, little, castle, table, channel, towel
Level 6.9 ie vs. ei: piece, field, neighbor, weigh, believe, receive, view, chief, friend, height
Level 6.10 High frequency list K: cannot, probably, animal, answer, world, always, paper, river, almost, family
Level 6.11 High frequency list L: follow, together, person, another, young, area, favorite, awesome, warm, order
Level 7.1 Colors: orange, green, blue, violet, yellow, purple, black, brown, white, pink
Level 7.2 Parts of the body: hand, elbow, finger, arm, ear, foot, head, back, stomach, toe
Level 7.3 Families: mother, father, brother, sister, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt, daughter
Level 7.4 Days, calendar words: decade, century, month, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Level 7.5 Months : January, February, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Level 7.6 Number words #1: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Level 7.7 Number words #2: eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
Level 7.8 Number words #3: thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, thousand, million
Level 7.9 Math terms: equal, angle, degrees, decimal, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, sum, difference
Level 7.10 Writing terms: consonant, vowel, paragraph, essay, sentence, assignment, period, comma, verb, adjective
Level 7.11 School words: science, social, studies, music, subject, physical, education, library, history, students
Level 7.12 Jobs: -er and -or endings: teacher, farmer, author, mayor, lawyer, doctor, director, sailor, builder
Level 7.13 Geography terms: America, Africa, Europe, Australia, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Asia, ocean
Level 7.14 High frequency list M: change, finally, example, questions, problem, usually, please, meant, become, measure
Level 7.15 High frequency list N: position, island, correct, common, understand, factor, object, continue, behind, heart
Level 8.1 Plurals with -s and -es: guesses, doors, glasses, symbols, potatoes, dresses, flowers, seeds, valleys, taxes
Level 8.2 Plurals with -y to -ies, -f to -ves: ponies, babies, loaves, shelves, knives, lives, stories, ladies, copies, parties
Level 8.3 Irregular plurals: children, women, teeth, mice, feet, people, men, geese, sheep, deer
Level 8.4 Mixed plural review: puppies, kisses, wishes, wolves, elves, families, churches, volcanoes, boxes, heroes
Level 8.5 Homophones #1: except, accept, here, hear, its, it's, hours, ours, week, weak
Level 8.6 Homophones #2: scent, sent, cent, wait, weight, break, brake, by, buy, bye
Level 8.7 Homophones #3: passed, past, would, wood, their, there, meat, meet, affect, effect
Level 8.8 Homophones #4: whole, hole, whether, weather, close, clothes, plain, plane, son, sun
Level 8.9 High frequency list O: slowly, remember, several, money, war, toward, morning, different, against, pattern
Level 8.10 High frequency list P: nothing, circle, system, square, perhaps, already, energy, exactly, whose, engine
Level 9.1 Present-tense verbs: touch, leave, represent, describe, pull, laugh, suggest, decide, climb, finish
Level 9.2 -ing verbs where the silent -e drops: dancing, driving, making, loving, caring, hoping, riding, smiling, saving, serving
Level 9.3 -ing verbs: regular vs. consonant doubling: swimming, running, winning, throwing, washing, mailing, kicking, listening, hopping, sitting
Level 9.4 -ed verbs: regular vs. consonant doubling: mixed, covered, enjoyed, compared, planned, tapped, dropped, tagged, stopped, tipped
Level 9.5 -y verbs with -ing, -ed endings: cried, crying, carrying, carried, hurrying, hurried, trying, tried, burying, buried
Level 9.6 Mixed -ed and -ing verb endings: happened, remaining, including, writing, taking, quitting, begged, hoped, excited, wrapped
Level 9.7 Past tense verbs: -ought, -aught, and -ept: thought, brought, bought, caught, taught, fought, sought, kept, slept, swept
Level 9.8 Past tense irregular verbs: began, felt, became, built, wrote, stood, heard, paid, spoke, took
Level 9.9 Mixed verb review: prepared, repeating, arrived, understood, drove, broke, dragged, grinning, surviving, timing
Level 9.10 High frequency list Q: complete, numeral, calculator, dollar, bottom, famous, notice, design, travel, various
Level 9.11 High frequency list R: naughty, instead, surface, course, produce, important, window, develop, strange, suddenly
Level 10.1 Compound words #1: something, sometimes, anything, everything, yourself, everyone, himself, herself, someone, anyone
Level 10.2 Compound words #2: keyboard, notebook, homework, wheelchair, baseball, afternoon, birthday, newspaper, grasshopper, skateboard
Level 10.3 Contractions with 'not': don't, didn't, can't, won't, wasn't, isn't, wouldn't, doesn't, shouldn't, aren't
Level 10.4 Contractions with 'am', 'is', 'are': they're, I'm, he's, she's, you're, we're, what's, who's, where's, there's
Level 10.5 Contractions with 'will', 'would', 'have', 'had': I'll, we'll, you'll, I'd, she'd, we've, you've, he'd, they've, it'll
Level 10.6 Mixed contractions: let's, couldn't, haven't, they'll, I've, he'll, she'll, that's, weren't, we'd
Level 10.7 High frequency list S: products, unit, figure, certain, distance, difficult, length, width, summer, winter
Level 10.8 High frequency list T: practice, information, captain, language, material, especially, natural, dictionary, control, explain
Level 11.1 Prefixes #1 -- re, un, pre: return, preview, undo, unlock, preschool, unhappy, rewind, unplug, preheat, restart
Level 11.2 Prefixes #2 -- in, im, il, ir: impossible, irregular, illegal, invisible, immature, imperfect, incapable, improper, illiterate, impatient
Level 11.3 Prefixes #3 -- dis, mis, non: disappear, disagree, nonsense, nonstop, nonfiction, dislike, discover, misspell, misbehave, mistake
Level 11.4 Prefixes #4 -- other mixed prefixes: antifreeze, decode, abnormal, hemisphere, midnight, outrun, semicircle, submarine, tricycle, underground
Level 11.5 Suffixes #1 -- ful, less: beautiful, careful, harmless, hopeless, thoughtful, colorful, fearless, homeless, worthless, thankful
Level 11.6 Suffixes #2 -- able, ible: disposable, comfortable, visible, acceptable, readable, lovable, responsible, incredible, terrible, horrible
Level 11.7 Suffixes #3 -- other mixed suffixes: argument, punishment, sadness, happiness, childish, creative, freedom, boredom, kindness, movement
Level 11.8 Commonly confused words: loose, lose, choose, chose, desert, dessert, breath, breathe, quiet, quite
Level 11.9 High frequency list U: mountains, column, themselves, building, contain, special, business, separate, government, machine
Level 11.10 High frequency list V: necessary, rhythm, temperature, straight, suppose, experiment, syllables, exercise, interesting, surprise
We believe that a student who masters all 1,200 words and the underlying patterns found within them will be well on his or her way to spelling success for life!