Find the words you keep misspelling, then fix them
Most people get the same handful of words wrong again and again without knowing which ones they are. SpellSense tests you on the words you actually use and shows exactly which letters you missed. It keeps a list of your problem words and brings them back until you spell them right every time.
Free, and no account needed.
- Practised today
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- Words in total
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- Mastered
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How it finds your problem words
- Step 1
Spell it without seeing it
Hear the word at natural speed and slowly, read what it means (with the word blanked out of any example sentences), then type it. One try, no hints.
- Step 2
See exactly what went wrong
A miss shows your own attempt with each missing, extra or wrong letter marked, so you know whether it was the double letter, the silent one or the ending.
- Step 3
Drill your problem words
Every word you miss goes on your list of words to work on. Drill just those, hardest first. A word you have missed needs a longer run of correct answers before it counts as mastered.
Ways to use it
It works the same way for everyone. What changes is why you are practising.
Clean up your everyday writing
Emails, reports, messages. You practise the most common words first, which are the ones you write every day, and quickly find the few you always get wrong.
Revise for a test or exam
A few minutes a day is enough. Spaced repetition brings each word back just before you would forget it, so the time goes on words you do not know yet.
Learning English
Hear how a word sounds, learn what it means and connect the sound to the spelling, starting with the words you will meet most often.
Practise with friends or family
Add each other by username and see who practised the most words today and who has mastered the most. That is all friends can see.
Dyslexia or finding reading hard
Every word can be heard slowly, and the pages use wide letter spacing, a low-glare background and a typeface chosen to reduce visual crowding.
Common questions
- Who is SpellSense for?
- Anyone who wants to spell better: people who want to stop making the same mistakes at work, students, people learning English, and people with dyslexia. It is free, and you do not need an account to start.
- How does it find my problem words?
- Any word you spell wrong and have not yet mastered becomes a problem word. They are listed on your progress page, hardest first, and you can practise only those at any time.
- What does an account do?
- It saves your progress so it follows you between devices. Without one, progress is kept in this browser only.
- Which words does it teach?
- The most frequently used words in English first, in order. You learn the words you actually read and write every day before rare ones.
- What happens when I get a word wrong?
- It comes back much sooner. Spelling a word correctly pushes its next review further away; getting it wrong resets that progress so you see it again the same day.