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Bossy r: spelling bee words

Words where an r after the vowel changes its sound: car and star, corn and storm, and the three that sound alike, her, bird and turn.

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Bossy r

Er, ir and ur all say the same sound, so you have to know which one a word uses: her, bird, turn.

car
star
farm
park
yard
barn
shark
start
card
dark
hard
smart
corn
fork
horse
storm
short
sport
born
north
porch
torn
horn
morning
her
fern
verb
bird
girl
first
shirt
turn
burn
hurt
nurse
purple

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Also on Peabody: the Words place, words that start with each letter, spelling games and the Daily Word. Teachers: the weekly lists these come from are on Peabody Teach.

How this list was made: The bossy-r weeks of the K–8 teachers' 1st and 2nd grade lists (ar, or, and er, ir and ur).

These are Peabody's own words, built from our grade word banks. They are not the Scripps School Spelling Bee Study List, which belongs to Scripps and is given to enrolled schools. Have the school's sheet? Ask the teacher; schools get it from Scripps at spellingbee.com. Checked 31 October 2026 · Free, no account, nothing you do here leaves this device · v0.2.0