Sight words
High-Frequency Words 301 to 400
The fourth band of our high-frequency words, from black and law to cause, with hangman, difficulty scores and a printable and answer key.
Read the word list
The fourth hundred is where the Dolch lists nearly disappear: only 8 of the 100 words are on one, namely black, together, car, five, kind, hand, girl and pretty. What replaces them is a mix of everyday words (food, room, friend, nice) and more formal ones (information, important, international, university, research).
These are words that readers find in textbooks, websites and news stories. Many are long, with common endings: -tion, -ant, -al. Students at the top of elementary school and in middle school are the right audience, along with adult learners of English who want the words that turn up in everyday reading.
Several of them are good spelling challenges. Remember and understand have tricky middles. Probably drops a syllable when spoken, so it gets misspelled as probly. International is a long word with a short sound pattern that rewards chunking: inter, nation, al.
100 entries. Our solver needed 4.0 wrong guesses on average: 19 easy, 45 medium and 36 hard. The toughest is book (13 misses), the quickest least (0).
- law #301 Hard · 12
- makes #302 Hard · 5
- together #303 Easy · 1
- whole #304 Medium · 3
- car #305 Hard · 7
- face #306 Medium · 4
- five #307 Hard · 7
- kind #308 Hard · 5
- maybe #309 Hard · 8
- president #310 Easy · 1
- story #311 Medium · 3
- working #312 Medium · 4
- course #313 Medium · 2
- games #314 Hard · 5
- health #315 Medium · 2
- hope #316 Hard · 6
- important #317 Easy · 1
- least #318 Easy · 0
- means #319 Medium · 4
- news #320 Medium · 2
- within #321 Medium · 3
- able #322 Easy · 0
- book #323 Hard · 13
- early #324 Medium · 2
- friends #325 Medium · 4
- information #326 Easy · 0
- local #327 Medium · 2
- oh #328 Hard · 6
- post #329 Hard · 6
- thanks #330 Medium · 3
- video #331 Medium · 3
- young #332 Medium · 4
- ago #333 Hard · 10
- others #334 Easy · 0
- social #335 Medium · 2
- talk #336 Medium · 4
- court #337 Hard · 7
- fact #338 Hard · 6
- given #339 Hard · 7
- guys #340 Hard · 7
- half #341 Hard · 8
- hand #342 Hard · 5
- level #343 Medium · 2
- mind #344 Hard · 8
- often #345 Medium · 4
- single #346 Easy · 0
- become #347 Hard · 6
- body #348 Hard · 9
- coming #349 Hard · 6
- control #350 Medium · 3
- food #351 Hard · 8
- guy #352 Hard · 8
- hours #353 Medium · 3
- office #354 Medium · 3
- pay #355 Hard · 12
- problem #356 Medium · 4
- south #357 Medium · 4
- true #358 Medium · 4
- almost #359 Medium · 2
- history #360 Medium · 2
- known #361 Hard · 5
- large #362 Medium · 3
- lost #363 Medium · 3
- research #364 Easy · 0
- room #365 Medium · 3
- several #366 Easy · 1
- started #367 Easy · 0
- taking #368 Medium · 2
- university #369 Easy · 0
- win #370 Hard · 11
- wrong #371 Hard · 5
- along #372 Medium · 2
- anyone #373 Medium · 2
- else #374 Medium · 2
- girl #375 Hard · 5
- matter #376 Easy · 1
- pretty #377 Easy · 1
- remember #378 Medium · 2
- air #379 Medium · 3
- bit #380 Hard · 13
- friend #381 Medium · 3
- hit #382 Hard · 6
- needs #383 Easy · 0
- nice #384 Medium · 3
- playing #385 Hard · 5
- probably #386 Medium · 2
- saying #387 Medium · 3
- understand #388 Easy · 1
- class #389 Medium · 2
- close #390 Medium · 3
- comes #391 Hard · 5
- idea #392 Easy · 1
- international #393 Easy · 0
- looks #394 Medium · 4
- past #395 Hard · 6
- possible #396 Easy · 0
- wanted #397 Medium · 4
- cause #398 Medium · 4
- due #399 Hard · 7
- happy #400 Hard · 8
Words worth a closer look
- probablyOften misspelled as probly; say all three syllables.
- understandUnder plus stand, a compound worth splitting.
- importantEnds in -ant, not -ent.
- universityThe word starts like unit, so it begins with uni.
Teaching it
Try the long words first. They are easier in hangman, so students get early success, and then the harder short ones (oh, win, air, bit, hit) feel manageable. Use the difficulty score to pick: a word with a score of 5 or more is worth a second look.
Link spelling to meaning where you can. Information is built from inform, research from search, international from nation. A student who sees the root remembers the spelling better than one who memorizes every letter. Ask them to find the small word hidden in each big one.
Print a High-Frequency Words 301 to 400 worksheet
Eight puzzles on one US Letter page, with a clue, letter blanks, an empty frame to draw in, an alphabet strip to cross off and circles to count misses. Page two is the answer key.
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Draw eight different words from this list, right here. Same layout, new answer key.
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