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.

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1. Warm-Up

We write dates and numbers constantly, yet some of them are sneakily hard to spell. "Wednesday" buries a "d" you never pronounce. "February" has an "r" right after "Feb" that most people skip when they say it. And is it "forty" or "fourty"? It's "forty," with no "u," even though it comes from "four." This warm-up rounds up the trickiest days, numbers, and date words and helps you get them right. You'll hear each word and choose the correct spelling, building easy confidence with vocabulary you use on calendars, invitations, and forms all the time.

score: 65% (everyone)

🎧 10 questions

2. Confusables 🔒

Numbers and times come with a few sneaky homophones, words that sound the same but mean totally different things. Did she turn "eight," or did she "ate" something? Are there "four" apples, or is the present "for" you? Because these sound identical, your ear can't tell them apart, so spelling them correctly comes down to knowing the meaning behind each one. This quiz gives you sentences to complete, so you practice matching the right word to the right idea. It's quick, it's practical, and it clears up a set of mix-ups that slip past spellcheck every time.

score: 100% (everyone)

🎧 8 questions

3. Spelling Game 🔒

Think numbers and dates are the easy part of writing? This grand finale begs to differ. It gathers the days, dates, and numbers that quietly trip people up, the ones that look simple right up until you have to spell them out. You hear each word read aloud, then pick the right version from two that sit side by side, one correct and one a convincing fake. Spell Wednesday, February, or twelfth correctly and the honey climbs toward a clean finish. Slip up and the real spelling appears, and you lose one of your bees. Make it through the whole run and you'll never freeze over a date on a form again.

score: 86% (everyone)

🎧 10 questions

Across two quizzes, you'll practice dozens of words for numbers, days, and dates, from troublemakers like Wednesday, February, ninety, and twelfth to the easy-to-confuse pair forty and fourth. You'll also sort out the homophones that slip past spellcheck, like eight and ate, four and for, and night and knight. These are words you use writing dates, planning events, scheduling, and counting things out.

Each quiz takes about five minutes and works in a couple of ways. Some questions play a word aloud and ask you to choose the correct spelling, building your ear. Others give you a sentence with a blank to fill in, so you practice picking the right word for the meaning. Every answer comes with a short, plain explanation, and you can repeat either quiz whenever it's convenient.

Here's a neat detail: many of these come from a base word that shifts a little as it grows. "Nine" keeps its "e" in ninety but drops it in ninth, and "four" holds onto its "u" in fourth but loses it in forty. Noticing what changes is half the battle.

By the end, you'll spell out an age, a time, a date, or an amount without pausing at all, whether you hear the word or read it in a sentence. The dates and numbers in your writing will look as careful as everything around them.