Spelling Test Generator

This spelling test generator turns any word list into a read-aloud test. Type or paste this week’s spelling words, press Start, and the browser’s text-to-speech voice says each word (as often as you like) while the student types the spelling. At the end you get a score, a list of the words to practise and the correct spelling next to each attempt.

It suits parents running homework practice, teachers preparing a quick quiz, students revising on their own, and adults learning English spelling. You can shuffle the order so children cannot rely on memorising the sequence, choose a US or UK voice, and slow the voice down for younger learners.

The scorer below the test also grades a written test: paste the word list and the answers (one per line, in the same order) to mark it instantly. Matching ignores capital letters and extra spaces unless you switch on case-sensitive marking, which matters for words like “Wednesday” or “February”. Speech uses your device’s built-in voices, so nothing is uploaded.

Each answer is compared with the word in the same position of the test order. Before comparing, both are trimmed, repeated spaces are collapsed, curly apostrophes are straightened and, unless case-sensitive marking is on, both are lower-cased. Only an exact match counts as correct; blank answers count as wrong.

“Letters off” is the Levenshtein edit distance — the smallest number of single-letter insertions, deletions or substitutions needed to turn the answer into the correct word. Swapping two neighbouring letters (freind for friend) counts as two. Shuffling uses a seeded random order so the same seed always gives the same test.