Sight words
High-Frequency Words 401 to 500
The fifth band of our high-frequency list, words 401 to 500, from due and happy to chance and process, with hangman and a printable.
Read the word list
The last band finishes our list at word 500. Dolch words return here a little, 16 of them: red, six, saw, soon, ask, buy, baby, father, fire, light, morning, myself, street, watch, woman and bring. That may surprise you. Red, six and saw are simple, but modern text uses them less often than words like community or development.
The rest are mostly general vocabulary: happy, human, question, special, future, reason, check, report, easy. A few are plainly adult, such as police, million, development and political. They are real words that appear in any newspaper, and they are family-safe, which is how they passed our filter.
This band is a good target for confident spellers. Words such as although, according, available and experience are longer and rich in silent or doubled letters, so they can look tough on the page but go quickly in hangman, where the common letters give them away.
100 entries. Our solver needed 3.7 wrong guesses on average: 24 easy, 39 medium and 37 hard. The toughest is saw (11 misses), the quickest whether (0).
- human #401 Hard · 5
- members #402 Medium · 3
- months #403 Hard · 5
- move #404 Hard · 6
- question #405 Easy · 1
- wait #406 Hard · 6
- woman #407 Medium · 3
- ask #408 Hard · 5
- community #409 Easy · 1
- data #410 Medium · 4
- late #411 Medium · 2
- leave #412 Medium · 3
- north #413 Hard · 6
- saw #414 Hard · 11
- special #415 Easy · 1
- watch #416 Hard · 6
- either #417 Medium · 2
- future #418 Medium · 2
- light #419 Hard · 7
- low #420 Hard · 11
- million #421 Medium · 2
- morning #422 Medium · 3
- police #423 Medium · 3
- short #424 Medium · 3
- stay #425 Hard · 6
- taken #426 Hard · 5
- age #427 Hard · 5
- buy #428 Hard · 10
- deal #429 Hard · 5
- rather #430 Easy · 1
- reason #431 Easy · 1
- red #432 Hard · 6
- report #433 Easy · 1
- soon #434 Medium · 4
- third #435 Hard · 5
- turn #436 Hard · 5
- whether #437 Easy · 0
- among #438 Medium · 3
- check #439 Medium · 4
- development #440 Easy · 1
- form #441 Hard · 7
- further #442 Easy · 1
- heart #443 Easy · 1
- minutes #444 Medium · 2
- myself #445 Easy · 1
- services #446 Easy · 0
- yourself #447 Easy · 0
- act #448 Medium · 4
- although #449 Medium · 3
- asked #450 Medium · 2
- child #451 Hard · 5
- fire #452 Hard · 6
- fun #453 Hard · 10
- living #454 Medium · 4
- major #455 Medium · 4
- media #456 Hard · 5
- phone #457 Medium · 4
- players #458 Easy · 0
- art #459 Medium · 2
- behind #460 Medium · 4
- building #461 Medium · 2
- easy #462 Medium · 2
- market #463 Medium · 4
- near #464 Medium · 2
- plan #465 Hard · 6
- political #466 Easy · 1
- quite #467 Hard · 5
- six #468 Hard · 10
- talking #469 Medium · 3
- west #470 Hard · 6
- works #471 Hard · 6
- according #472 Medium · 2
- available #473 Easy · 0
- education #474 Easy · 1
- final #475 Medium · 4
- former #476 Hard · 5
- front #477 Medium · 3
- kids #478 Hard · 9
- list #479 Medium · 3
- ready #480 Medium · 3
- sometimes #481 Easy · 0
- son #482 Easy · 1
- street #483 Easy · 1
- bring #484 Hard · 6
- college #485 Medium · 2
- current #486 Medium · 2
- example #487 Easy · 1
- experience #488 Easy · 0
- heard #489 Medium · 2
- meet #490 Hard · 5
- program #491 Medium · 3
- type #492 Hard · 6
- baby #493 Hard · 11
- chance #494 Medium · 3
- father #495 Easy · 0
- march #496 Hard · 6
- process #497 Easy · 0
- song #498 Medium · 4
- study #499 Hard · 5
- word #500 Hard · 8
Words worth a closer look
- althoughEnds in -ough, with a silent gh; compare through in band two.
- accordingEnds in -ing; the middle -cord- is the root.
- experienceFour syllables; the ie is a classic reversal.
- womanPlural is women, with the o becoming e.
Teaching it
Use this band when the earlier ones feel too easy. For older students and adults, set a goal of ten words a session and note the ones with a high difficulty score. Words like although and according make good dictation, where you read a sentence aloud and the student writes it.
Pair the game with reading. Choose five words from the list, find them in a newspaper, a story or a web page, and underline them. Seeing a word several times in different places is how it goes from something you can spell to something you recognize in an instant.
Print a High-Frequency Words 401 to 500 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.
Need another sheet?
Draw eight different words from this list, right here. Same layout, new answer key.
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