Bad Spelling Bees

Choose your Bee.

Learn the exact spelling of words that resist easy shortcuts.

9 characters · 135 exercises

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  Vowel order

  Vowel Violet

  Mixes up the vowel sequence in common academic and workplace words.

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  Sound-alike words

  Homophone Hank

  Chooses a sound-alike spelling without checking the intended meaning.

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  Suffix spelling

  Suffix Sophie

  Changes a word ending without checking how the base and suffix join.

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  Plural spelling

  Plural Polly

  Confuses noun plurals with possessive endings.

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  Unstressed vowels

  Schwa Sheldon

  Checks the written vowels that weak sounds can hide.

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  Irregular spellings

  Rulebreaker Rex

  Checks exact spellings when easy shortcuts fail.

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  Sound-only spelling pitfalls

  Sound-It-Out Sid

  Checks conventional spellings beyond a sound-only guess.

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  Doubled consonants

  Doubled Danny

  Checks when consonants stay single, double or belong inside the word.

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  Borrowed-word English spelling

  Borrowed Bea

  Checks English spellings of borrowed words and the convention chosen for accepted variants.

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