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2024 Word List (English)
Grades 3-10
Competition Rules
A. Procedural Rules
B. Scoring Rules
C. Sample Marksheet
PROJECT
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COMPETITION RULES
It is important to remember that participants are marked for both correct procedure and correct spelling.
If the team has not followed the correct procedure, it will get a zero even if the spelling is correct.
The procedural and marking rules are as follows:
A. Procedural Rules:
1. The designated speller from each team will have a total of 40 seconds to give the spelling of the
word.
2. During the first 20 seconds:
—The designated speller can consult the team members.
—Any team member can ask the pronouncer to repeat the word, or the meaning of the word.
For Urdu Spelling Bee, the meanings of words will not be provided.
3. A signal will be given at the end of 20 seconds. After that signal, the designated speller has 20
seconds to spell the word, during which:
—No discussion is allowed between team members.
—Team members cannot ask any questions or request the pronouncer to repeat the word
—Team members cannot correct or stop or prompt the speller while she/he is spelling the word.
4. Another signal will be given at the end of 40 seconds.
5. When answering, the speller must follow the “Say-SPELL-Say” process, by first saying the word,
spelling it, and then saying the word again.
6. The speller should spell the word slowly and audibly, so that the pronouncer can hear each letter
clearly.
7. The speller may remain seated while answering.
8. No team member is allowed to write or type words, unless asked by the PSB officials.
9. Once the speller has spelt the whole word, whether correctly or incorrectly, she/he will not be
allowed to correct herself/himself. Example: If the speller is asked the spelling of APPLE, and he
incorrectly spells it as A-P-L-E, the word cannot be corrected because the whole word has been
spelled. However, if the speller has only spelled up to A-P-L, and not said the last letter, she/
he will be allowed to correct the spelling, but, in that case, the ‘Say-SPELL-Say’ process must be
followed again.
10. If the designated speller has started spelling the word before the 40 second signal is given, she/
he will be allowed to complete spelling the word, but will not be allowed to correct the spelling.
11. If a team loses its allotted time of 40 seconds on account of any outside disruptions, it will be
either given extra time to spell it, or given a new word and allotted another 40 seconds to spell
it. The decision to grant the extra time or a new word will be made at the discretion of the
pronouncer.
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B. Scoring Rules:
1. If both procedure and spelling are correct, the student will get 2 (two) marks.
2. If the procedure is correct but the spelling is incorrect, the student will get -1 (minus one).
3. If a speller is unable to spell a word or refuses to do so, the speller will get -1 (minus one).
4. If the procedure is incorrect but the spelling is correct, the student will get 0 (zero).
5. If both procedure and spelling are incorrect, the student will get -1 (minus one).
Scoring Rules
Correct procedure + Correct spelling Marks = 2
Correct procedure + Incorrect spelling Marks = −1
No answer Marks = −1
Incorrect procedure + Correct spelling Marks = 0
Incorrect procedure + Incorrect spelling Marks = −1
GRADE 4 2024 PAKISTAN SPELLING BEE WORD LIST
1. Words in the following list have embedded links to the Merriam-Webster
dictionary. Click on the listed words in this PDF to view their dictionary
entries. Some local words, however, may not have a dictionary entry.
2. Both American and British spellings of the words will be accepted.
Abaft Attendee Boogie-woogie
Abandon Attitude Bookworm
Abroad Available Boorish
Acceptance Avatar Bootless
Accomplice Avenue Botany
Accurate Awry Bowie
Acrostic Bailiff Breakfast
Addition Balance Breathtaking
Admirer Barber Brethren
Adrift Bargain Bristle
Aforesaid Basement Bronze
Afroth Basket Bumblebee
Agility Basmati Butterscotch
Amazed Beckon Camcorder
Amazon Behold Carnation
Americana Belief Carnival
Amiably Benches Carnivore
Amish Bicycle Carving
Amulet Billboard Cashier
Amusement Biology Castle
Amusing Biscuit Caterpillar
Anime Bizarre Cattle
Anniversary Blandish Celery
Annual Blanket Cheer
Anoint Blarney Chilli
Apparel Blemish Chowder
Applause Blizzard Cidery
Argue Blurred Citation
Aspect Boarders Clambering
Astonish Bogus Classical
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GRADE 4 2024 PAKISTAN SPELLING BEE WORD LIST
1. Words in the following list have embedded links to the Merriam-Webster
dictionary. Click on the listed words in this PDF to view their dictionary
entries. Some local words, however, may not have a dictionary entry.
2. Both American and British spellings of the words will be accepted.
Clause Cucumber Editorial
Clients Cupboard Effortless
Clipper Custody Egyptian
Clover Daresay Einstein
Clowder Daunted Elasticity
Collect Dawdle Elocution
Companion Debunk Endearing
Compelling Decent Engraved
Complaint Décor Enormous
Complementary Delicate Entrée
Complete Description Epoxy
Composite Diagram Escalator
Compost Dialect Escapade
Condemn Digestive Escape
Contestants Dignified Excellent
Contusion Dillydally Existence
Convention Dimension Extradition
Cooking Disaster Fabulist
Cooperate Distinctive Fadeaway
Copperhead Distraught Failure
Corkscrew Diversion Famished
Cornily Diversity Fantastically
Cosmic Docket Fashionista
Craggy Dowdy Faucet
Creation Downcast Favourite
Crept Dramatization Fellowship
Criminal Dreadlocks Ferocious
Criteria Duckling Fervently
Crooked Dumbwaiter Fetch
Crumpled Eagerly Filbert
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GRADE 4 2024 PAKISTAN SPELLING BEE WORD LIST
1. Words in the following list have embedded links to the Merriam-Webster
dictionary. Click on the listed words in this PDF to view their dictionary
entries. Some local words, however, may not have a dictionary entry.
2. Both American and British spellings of the words will be accepted.
Filters Gaucho Illness
Flannel Genetic Illusion
Flashback Giraffe Impact
Flattery Glinting Indicate
Fleeciness Glitterati Infiltrate
Flexible Godspeed Influential
Flimflammer Gradual Inglorious
Floridly Gravely Initials
Flummery Greedy Innocent
Flustered Gridiron Insomnia
Foothills Grumbling Intellectual
Foppery Guardian Intersect
Forensics Gymnastics Intertidal
Forgeable Habitual Invisible
Forgive Hardtack Invitation
Formalize Harmonious Irrigation
Formula Harrowing Isolation
Fragile Harvest Jacket
Fragrance Headdress Jankers
Frailty Headlong Jealousy
Fraught Hermitage Jitterbug
Freight Highlands Joinery
Frequently Hollyhock Jubilant
Fribble Homesteader Kenning
Frontier Homicide Kernel
Frozen Honest Kettle
Funnel Hooves Kidney
Furnish Horrid Kindred
Galaxy Horseradish Knitting
Garniture Hushed Labradoodle
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GRADE 4 2024 PAKISTAN SPELLING BEE WORD LIST
1. Words in the following list have embedded links to the Merriam-Webster
dictionary. Click on the listed words in this PDF to view their dictionary
entries. Some local words, however, may not have a dictionary entry.
2. Both American and British spellings of the words will be accepted.
Lactose Moisture Protested
Lambasted Monkeys Quality
Lateral Montage Raspberry
Laundry Mountains Reckon
Lawyer Munchkin Regiment
Lazily Muster Results
Leeway Narrow Riddance
Legislature Nephew Roller
Lexicon Nervily Rubric
Liberty Number Satellite
Likelier Nutmeg Sawdust
Limelight Opinionated Scrounge
Linguistics Origin Seclusion
Listener Overtures Sensory
Literally Padlock Severely
Lizard Pardon Shabby
Lodging Pathogen Shrugged
Luddi Pedicure Simmer
Lukewarm Peninsular Skirmish
Mammal Perhaps Slogan
Mansion Pesky Social
Marathon Pilferer Solitude
Maritime Pitiful Spangled
Massive Plumbing Specific
Mayhem Poisonous Spinster
Membership Portions Spreadsheet
Meteor Primers Steampunk
Millionaire Pristine Stewardship
Missile Profiteer Stubborn
Modality Promote Sullen
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GRADE 4 2024 PAKISTAN SPELLING BEE WORD LIST
1. Words in the following list have embedded links to the Merriam-Webster
dictionary. Click on the listed words in this PDF to view their dictionary
entries. Some local words, however, may not have a dictionary entry.
2. Both American and British spellings of the words will be accepted.
Sunflower Vocabulary
Superb Volume
Sweeten Voyage
Sympathy Warmth
Tantrum Welcome
Teaspoon Wheels
Teenagers Whirlybird
Thawed Whiskers
Thespian Wimple
Thrilling Wizened
Timidly
Toastmaster
Tolerable
Toothbrush
Trance
Treadmill
Trespass
Trumpet
Tutorial
Twirled
Unbearable
Unfazed
University
Vacation
Valuables
Various
Veered
Versatile
Vinegar
Violin
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