This page has a list of all 220 Dolch words divided into grade lists. Within each grade the words are ordered by frequency, with the most frequent words first.
Printable Dolch word list by grade in frequency order
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Dolch word list in color
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All 220 Dolch sight words in frequency order by grade
| Pre-Primer | Primer | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade |
| the | he | of | would | if |
| to | was | his | very | long |
| and | that | had | your | about |
| a | she | him | its | got |
| I | on | her | around | six |
| you | they | some | don’t | never |
| it | but | as | right | seven |
| in | at | then | green | eight |
| said | with | could | their | today |
| for | all | when | call | myself |
| up | there | were | sleep | much |
| look | out | them | five | keep |
| is | be | ask | wash | try |
| go | have | an | or | start |
| we | am | over | before | ten |
| little | do | just | been | bring |
| down | did | from | off | drink |
| can | what | any | cold | only |
| see | so | how | tell | better |
| not | get | know | work | hold |
| one | like | put | first | warm |
| my | this | take | does | full |
| me | will | every | goes | done |
| big | yes | old | write | light |
| come | went | by | always | pick |
| blue | are | after | made | hurt |
| red | now | think | gave | cut |
| where | no | let | us | kind |
| jump | came | going | buy | fall |
| away | ride | walk | those | carry |
| here | into | again | use | small |
| help | good | may | fast | own |
| make | want | stop | pull | show |
| yellow | too | fly | both | hot |
| two | pretty | round | sit | far |
| play | four | give | which | draw |
| run | saw | once | read | clean |
| find | well | open | why | grow |
| three | ran | has | found | together |
| funny | brown | live | because | shall |
| eat | thank | best | laugh | |
| who | upon | |||
| new | these | |||
| must | sing | |||
| black | wish | |||
| white | many | |||
| soon | ||||
| our | ||||
| ate | ||||
| say | ||||
| under | ||||
| please |