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Adding ed and ing: spelling bee words

Words that change when an ending is added: jumped, hoping, running, baked, stopped, smiling.

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Adding ed and ing

Drop a silent e before ing (hope, hoping). Double the last letter after one short vowel (run, running). Otherwise just add the ending (jump, jumped).

jumped
played
looked
wanted
helped
rained
called
filled
kicked
picked
rested
landed
jumping
playing
reading
singing
eating
looking
helping
sleeping
walking
painting
drawing
resting
running
sitting
hopping
stopped
clapped
swimming
shopping
getting
planned
hugged
digging
grabbed
making
baking
riding
hiding
smiling
hoping
skating
sliding
writing
taking
waving
shining
forgetting
admitted
committed
occurred
preferred
controlled
permitted
regretted
referred
submitted
equipped

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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 ed and ing weeks of the K–8 teachers' lists, with dropping the e and doubling the last letter.

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