Spelling Bee

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✅ Which spelling is right?

I'll say a word and show you three spellings. Only one is right. Tap it! These are words that trip up lots of people.

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The answers, and why

  1. Which is the right way to spell "friend"? friend. A friend is there to the end: f-r-i-e-n-d.
  2. Which is the right way to spell "because"? because. B-e-c-a-u-s-e. Big elephants can always understand small elephants!
  3. Which is the right way to spell "said"? said. S-a-i-d. It doesn't sound the way it looks, so it's one to learn by heart.
  4. Which is the right way to spell "Wednesday"? Wednesday. W-e-d-n-e-s-d-a-y. Say "Wed-nes-day" to remember the d.
  5. Which is the right way to spell "people"? people. P-e-o-p-l-e: people eat oranges.
  6. Which is the right way to spell "again"? again. A-g-a-i-n: a, then gain.
  7. Which is the right way to spell "believe"? believe. Never believe a lie: be-lie-ve.
  8. Which is the right way to spell "beautiful"? beautiful. B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l, with just one l at the end, like every word ending in -ful.
  9. Which is the right way to spell "would"? would. W-o-u-l-d, like could and should.
  10. Which is the right way to spell "different"? different. D-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t: two f's, and say all three parts, dif-fer-ent.

Grades 2 to 4. Written by Peabody, every answer checked before the page went up; nothing you tap is saved or sent. Checked 6 November 2026.

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These are Peabody's own words, built from our grade word banks. They are not the Scripps School Spelling Bee Study List, which belongs to Scripps and is given to enrolled schools. Have the school's sheet? Ask the teacher; schools get it from Scripps at spellingbee.com. Checked 31 October 2026 · Free, no account, nothing you do here leaves this device · v0.2.0

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