Spelling Test Generator

Turn this week's word list into a printable test

Most spelling homework starts with a list on a sticky note or in the back of a reading book. Paste that list into the words box, one word per line or separated by commas, and the tool counts them as you type and builds a numbered sheet with a blank line beside every number. That is the whole job of a spelling worksheet maker: you supply the words, it handles the ruling, numbering and spacing so the page comes out straight.

The title field sits at the top of the sheet, so you can label it Friday Spelling Test, Unit 12 Review, or whatever your class already recognises. Underneath the title the student sheet prints Name and Date lines, and at the bottom there is a score box that fills in the total for you, so a ten-word test shows Score: ___ / 10 without you working it out.

Nothing is saved to an account and nothing needs signing up for. It runs in the browser, which means you can build a free spelling test at eight in the morning on a school laptop and have it in the printer a minute later.

Three layouts, and when each one earns its place

Single Line gives one writing line per word. It is the standard spelling test format: you read the word aloud, the child writes it once, you mark it. For a weekly quiz this is almost always the right choice, and it fits around twenty words on a page comfortably.

Double Line puts two lines under each number instead of one. This is the layout to use for practice rather than assessment, where the point is writing the word twice, or writing it once and correcting it after you have read out the answers. Two Columns splits the words into two columns down the page, which halves the length of a long list and is useful when you have twenty-five or thirty words and do not want a second sheet.

There is also an extra write line option, which adds a second practice line to the printed sheet, and a numbers toggle if you would rather hand out an unnumbered blank sheet and call out the numbers yourself. Between them these settings cover most of what people want from blank spelling worksheets without you having to redraw anything in a word processor.

Bonus words and the matching answer key

The second word box is for bonus or challenge words. Anything you put there prints in its own section below the main list, under a Bonus Words heading and numbered B1, B2, B3 so there is no confusion about which words count towards the main score. The score box reflects this too, showing the regular total plus the bonus words in brackets. It is a tidy way to stretch the stronger spellers in a mixed class without printing a separate harder test.

Switch to the Answer Key tab and the same sheet reprints with every word filled in, coloured to match your theme and marked with an Answer Key badge in the corner. The name, date and score fields are left off the key, since nobody needs to write on it. Print the student sheet first, then flip the tab and print one key for yourself, or for a teaching assistant or parent helper running the test with a small group.

Printing, colours and sharing the sheet

Print Test opens a clean print window with 15mm page margins and no site navigation, so what you see is what lands on the paper. It is set up for US Letter and works on A4 if you let your printer scale to fit. The five themes, Classic, Ocean, Forest, Sunset and Lavender, change the title colour, the rule under the header and the colour of the answers on the key. Classic is plain grey and black, which is the one to pick if you are printing thirty copies and would rather not think about toner.

Download Image saves the sheet as a PNG at double resolution instead of printing it. That is the option to use when you are sending spelling homework to a parent on a phone, posting it in a class stream, or dropping it into a slide. Because it is an image rather than a PDF, it opens on anything without a reader.

Word lists to start from

Five sample lists are built in if you need something quickly or want a sense of what a level looks like. They run from Grade 1 short vowels, cat, dog, sun, bed, to Grade 2 long vowels, cake, bike, night, green, then Grade 3 blends, black, fresh, swept, Grade 4 prefixes, unhappy, disagree, incomplete, and Grade 5 suffixes, happiness, breathless, carefully. Loading one fills the word box and renames the test, and you can edit it afterwards like any other list.

They are grouped by pattern rather than by random difficulty, which is how most spelling schemes work: a week of words that all share a sound or a prefix teaches more than ten unrelated words. If you are following a specific scheme at school, use the sample lists as a shape to copy and paste your own words in, mixing in two or three from previous weeks to check the earlier patterns have stuck.