Spelling test maker
Type or paste the week’s words, press start, and the browser reads them out one at a time while the child types what they hear. It marks the test, shows what went wrong, and prints a sheet. No account, no upload, no limit on how many you make.
SpellingTestMaker spelling test
Name ____________________ Date ____________
Listen to each word and write it on the line. Put your name at the top first.
SpellingTestMaker spelling test
Name ____________________ Date ____________
Look at the word, cover it, write it, then check. Repeat any you get wrong.
Spelling certificate
Awarded to
SpellingTestMaker spelling test
Score ______ out of ______
Date ____________
What the practice modes do
Generated by the same code the buttons run, on the first few words of this list, so what is printed here is what you will get.
| Word | Letter scramble | Missing letters | Spelled out loud |
|---|---|---|---|
| because | beseuac | b_ca_se | B, E, C, A, U, S, E |
| friend | nfdeir | fr__nd | F, R, I, E, N, D |
| separate | aesrptae | sep_r_t_ | S, E, P, A, R, A, T, E |
Why the words have to come from you
Every spelling programme in every school works from a list somebody else chose — the ones in the book, the ones on the whiteboard, the fifteen the class got wrong last Friday. A site that only offers its own lists is useful for about one week. This one starts with an empty box, because the list you actually need is almost never a list anyone has published.
Paste the words in whatever shape you have them: one per line, comma-separated out of an email, or numbered straight off a worksheet. Numbering, bullets and stray spacing are stripped on the way in. To have a sentence read out with a word — which you want the moment the list contains "their" and "there" — put it after a pipe, as in there | Your bag is over there by the door.
What the voice is, and what it is not
The reading voice is your own device’s, through the speech synthesis built into every current browser. Nothing is recorded, no audio is fetched, and there is no per-word cost — which is why this can be free and why it works on the school laptop that blocks half the internet. Pick the voice from the dropdown; what you see listed is whatever your operating system has installed, and on a Mac or an iPad the voices marked enhanced are worth the wait while they download.
It is a synthesiser, not a teacher. It will read read in the wrong tense given the chance, and it has no idea whether the child in front of it is stuck. That is exactly why the example sentence matters, why replay sits under the space bar, and why there is a spell-it-out button that reads the letters one at a time for a child who cannot get the word from hearing it whole.
Nothing here reaches a server
There is no account because there is nothing to hold an account for. The word list, the name on the certificate, the answers and the score all stay in the browser tab they were typed into. Lists you save go into your own device’s local storage, which means they survive a reload and vanish the moment you clear your browsing data.
That matters more on a school site than a general one. A child’s name attached to a score is exactly the kind of record that turns into a data-protection question, and the honest way to avoid the question is never to hold the record. Sending a list to a class is done by packing the words into the link itself rather than by uploading them anywhere.
Three ways to practise before the test
A test measures. It does not teach, and running the same test twice on Thursday and Friday mostly measures how well a child remembers Thursday. The three practice modes each attack a different failure: look-cover-write-check builds the motor memory of the whole word, letter scramble forces attention onto letter order without the crutch of sounding out, and fill-the-missing-letters blanks the vowels, because vowels are where English spelling actually goes wrong.
Use them in that order across the week and save the audio test for the end. The gap between "can copy it" and "can produce it from the sound alone" is the entire skill, and only the last of the four measures it.
Common questions
Do I need to create an account?
No, and there is nothing to create one with. The site has no login, no email field and no server that stores anything. Close the tab and the only trace left is whatever you chose to save into your own browser.
How many words can one test have?
There is no fixed limit — the practical one is attention. Ten to fifteen is a normal weekly list, twenty is a long test for a nine-year-old, and anything past thirty is better split into two sittings.
Can I send a list to a class without anybody signing in?
Yes. The share button packs the whole list into the link itself, so the words travel in the address and whoever opens it gets the test preloaded. Nothing is stored at either end, which also means a link you have lost cannot be recovered.
Will it work on a school Chromebook?
Usually. Speech synthesis is built into Chrome and needs no permission or plugin, and this site loads no external code. The one thing worth checking is that the device is not muted, which explains about nine reports in ten that the audio is not working.
Does it mark capital letters as wrong?
Not by default. Case is ignored so a child typing cat for Cat is not marked down for the shift key, but there is a switch that makes the test case-sensitive for when proper nouns are the point of the list.
Other lists and guides
- How to run a spelling testThe weekly routine
- Printable test sheetsPaper, from any list
- Dolch sight words315 words, six groups
- Fry sight wordsFirst 300, in frequency order
- Grade 1 wordsShort vowels and blends
- Grade 2 wordsSilent e and vowel teams
- Grade 3 wordsR-controlled and affixes
- Grade 4 wordsEndings and Latin roots
- Grade 5 wordsRoots, schwa and pairs
- Grade 6 wordsAcademic vocabulary