| lime | tine | fine | mine | tell | well |
| yell | belt | rave | gave | pave |
| save | ill | bill | fill | rill | hill |
| cull | dull | gull | hull | mull |
| blaze | craze | shape | state | fume | spume |
| fluke | flume | sneer | creed |
| steep | sleek | fleet | spite | quite | whine |
| spine | drive | tribe | brine | spire |
| bride | blame | flame | slate | spade | globe |
| drone | stone | probe | shore | clear |
| blear | spear | smear | dean | bean | bead |
| beam | lean | mope | mold | tore | robe |
| poke |
| clasp | grasp | flask | graft | craft | book |
| good | took | foot | hook | small | stall |
| fall | wall | squall | boon | spoon | bloom |
| broom | stool | cramp | stamp | grand | stand |
| lamp | stork | horse | snort | short | north |
| bring | cling | sling | swing | thing | wad |
| was | wash | what | moan | coast | toast |
| roast | roach | pod | rob | rock | soft |
| lost |
| fatal | pagan | baby | lady | lazy | navy |
| racy | legal | regal | real | penal | taper |
| dial | trial | final | vital | rival | vial |
| local | focal | vocal | oral | oval | total |
| bony | gory | rosy | posy | duel | human |
| unit | duly | fury | jury | puny | pupil |
| humid |
| marry | rally | napkin | happy | pantry | tablet |
| elder | hectic | helmet | kennel | belfry |
| eddy | entry | envy | testy | selfish | civil |
| ditty | giddy | silly | livid | limit |
| limber | rivet | linen | millet | culprit | clumsy |
| funnel | gully | bucket | sullen | summon | hurry |
| care | share | spare | snare | game | lame |
| name | fame | tame | fast | mast |
| mask | past | scar | spar | star | garb |
| barb | charm | chart | lard | arm |
| yard | lake | gale | cape | shame | camp |
| damp | hand | land | sand | waft | raft |
| chaff | staff | war | warp | warm | ward |
| warn | fray | play | gray | stay | bray |
| danger | manger | wager | favor | flavor | savor |
| major | amber | banter | banner | handy | cancer |
| tamper | planet | hamper | stammer | larder | margin |
| ardent | army | artist | harvest | party | tardy |
| carpet | garment | clatter | flatter | latter | matter |
| patter | tatter | ragged | racket | vanish | gallant |
| pattern |
| sheep | creep | sleep | sweep | speed | breeze |
| teeth | sneeze | bleed | freed | cedar | fever |
| tremor |
| secret | sequel | sequence | hero | zero | better |
| letter | enter | ever | never | sever | member |
| plenty |
| venom | clergy | fervor | hermit | mercy | sermon |
| serpent | merchant | verbal | verdict | person | ferment |
| bird | birch | chirp | flirt | girl | shirt |
| squirm | squirt | third | brier | cider | miser |
| spider |
| viper | client | giant | item | icy | spiral |
| ivy | bitter | differ | dinner | fritter | litter |
| river |
| shiver | silver | inner | liver | thirty | thirsty |
| thirdly | girlish | girder | firstly | birthday |
| broker | clover | grocer | over | odor | solar |
| polar | poker | homely | poem | topic | moral |
Spelling Lists Based on McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, by W. H. McGuffey.