Spelling

Clean spelling makes any piece of writing look careful and credible, and a handful of words cause most of the slips. These spelling quizzes tackle the commonly misspelled words and hand you a memory trick for each one.

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📝🐝 Everyday Words

Ever pause over a word you write every single day, second-guessing whether you've got it right? These quizzes flip that feeling around, so the everyday spellings you reach for constantly start coming out right without a second thought.

📅🐝 At Work and Office

Ever hit send on a work email and then wonder if you spelled a word right? These quizzes make sure the everyday office vocabulary you use all day comes out right, so your writing always looks as sharp as your thinking.

📚🐝 School, Reading and Writing

Are you still second-guessing words you first learned back in school? These quizzes give the everyday vocabulary of reading, writing, and learning a quick polish, so you can write about ideas without your spelling getting in the way.

👪🐝 People, Looks and Feelings

Ever go to describe someone and freeze on how to spell the word you want? These quizzes cover the common describing words for looks and feelings, so your descriptions land cleanly and keep all the attention on what you're saying.

✈️🐝 Food and Travel

Can you spell restaurant without pausing, or itinerary without dropping a syllable? These quizzes turn menus, recipes, and trip plans into spelling practice, so the words come out right whether you're sharing a review or booking your next adventure.

💯🐝 Numbers, Dates and Time

Does February hide an r, and is it forty or fourty? These quizzes round up the trickiest days, dates, and numbers and help you get them right, so your invitations, deadlines, and forms always look sharp.

👑🐝 Focus Drills

Is it appearance or appearence? Sensible or sensable? The Focus Drills zero in on three of the toughest patterns in English, one at a time, so you can master each one properly instead of guessing word by word.

Mastering Commonly Misspelled Words

Across the sets you get a short clue and spell the word it points to, working through everyday troublemakers like separate, environment, and accommodate (two c's, two m's). The harder rounds take on words whose sound and spelling barely match, including rhythm, minuscule (from minus, not mini), and bellwether (a leader, with no weather in it).

Most rounds run ten words, with a few longer sets, and each takes only a few minutes. Fixing a word once, with a reason you can remember, is far more reliable than hoping a tool catches it later, and the later quizzes even branch into synonyms to grow your vocabulary.

The Tricks That Make Them Stick

The word supersede is the only common English word that ends in sede, so remembering it as the lone one turns a hard spelling into an easy call. The word definitely hides finite right inside it, and once you spot that, the vowels fall into place and the common misspelling stops looking right.

Clean spelling makes your writing look careful and credible, whether it is an email, an essay, or a resume, and these are exactly the words that slip past a quick glance into a finished document. Most of them have a story or a pattern behind their odd spelling, and once you know it, the word stops being a trap.

The word colonel is a good example, pronounced just like "kernel" yet spelled c-o-l-o-n-e-l, a quirk left over from its twisting path through French and Italian, and aficionado takes just one f, not two, which catches almost everyone the first time.

Ready to stop second-guessing the words you write most? Open these interactive spelling quizzes and start with the frequent fails.