| nigh | thigh | fight | light | flight | fright |
| tight | load | oats | boat | oak |
| foal | goat | soap | coax | hoax | oath |
| coach | float | poach | hoarse | shrank |
| shrewd | shrift | shrike | shrunk | thrill | three |
| thrash | threat | throng | throve | thrust | throat |
| gain | nail | trail | aim | maim | train |
| strain | chain | paint | quaint |
| abash | canal | relax | attack | attract | dispatch |
| distract | expand | defect | elect | erect |
| event | pretend | reflect | refresh | relent | reject |
| request | rebel | regress | repress | subject | neglect |
| accident | animal | annual | flattery | family | benefit |
| destiny | remedy | regular | relevant | difficult | history |
| injury | similar |
| make | safe | gaze | saint | chamber | pastry |
| mangy | brave | crave | grave | shave | adjacent |
| awaken |
| span | trap | sham | adder | anvil | banish |
| brandy | crack | gland | slack | plaid | candidate |
| calico | gratitude | magistrate |
| dare | rare | flare | glare | affair | despair |
| beware | compare | chair | prayer | scare | square |
| transparent | carefulness |
| farm | harm | barn | yarn | arbor | armor |
| barber | cargo | guard | harsh | argument | artichoke |
| cardinal | carpenter |
| mass | class | vast | task | chance | passport |
| master | grafted | gasp | chant | prance | advantage |
| tall | wart | awe | default | defraud | assault |
| drawl | pawn | sprawl | warmth | audience | plausible |
| talkative |
| wand | squat | watch | wanton | wander | squander |
| wallow | squash | squad | swamp | whatever |
| feel | keel | glee | deem | female | query |
| neither | wean | these | priest | cheer | deity |
| ebb | fret | them | penny | second | tender |
| sledge | spread | knelt | enemy | recognize | memory |
| where | heiress |
| term | pearl | err | learn | ermine | early |
| perfect | mercer | terse | merge | yearn | swerve |
| personal | merchandise |
| crime | shrine | thrive | diet | quiet | spice |
| strive | slime | bribery | liable | icicle |
| sting | bliss | inch | strip | pivot | splinter |
| tinder | wicked | spring | twitch | thick |
| petite | antique | fatigue | intrigue | police | magazine |
| submarine | quarantine |
| stir | first | firm | skirt | birthright | thirst |
| firth | thirtieth |
| host | smoke | sport | slope | poet | locate |
| solo | chrome | blown | scold | glorify | poetry |
| bond | frost | lodge | prong | monster | potter |
| mosque | frond | longitude | nominate | obligate |
| month | glove | shove | front | bloodshed | lovely |
| nothing | covet | sponge | tongue | flood | blood |
| brotherhood |
| whom | move | tour | shoe | tourist | routine |
| throughout | group | prove | youth | whoever | movingly |
| wolf | would | could | should | woman | born |
| horn | torture | forked | former | forward | corpse |
| thorn | scorn | scorch |
| work | word | worm | worthy | worship | effort |
| worldly | worse | world | whorl |
| tool | noon | spool | groove | moonshine | blooming |
| gloomy | groom | school | soothe | smooth | roominess |
| wool | look | hood | lookout | woodland | brook |
| crook | shook | stood |
Spelling Lists Based on McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, by W. H. McGuffey.