Spelling

100 Commonly Misspelled Words
Correct spelling for 100 hard to spell words

How do you spell banana?

Spelling Rules
The following rules can help you to decode the mysteries of English spelling.

British and American Spelling
colour, color; practise, practice; tyre, tire

Spell Checker Dangers
This fun poem shows the dangers of relying too much on a spellchecker.

Doubled consonant before -ed
jogged, planned, dropped

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English is Not Phonetic
Spelling and pronunciation are not the same in English.

"Ghoti" = "Fish"
English is not phonetic. Why you can't tell how to pronounce a word by looking at its spelling.

Spelling games online

mobile-friendly ESL games

Play word scrambles to test your spelling:

Test yourself with these fun spelling quizzes that you can do online or on paper!
I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.Mark Twain