Printable spelling test sheets
A Friday test, a teacher key, a list to send home, and the weekday drills — all from the same words, printed by the browser. No PDF to download, no account.
Want to keep it?
This page prints and forgets. Make it as a word list instead and the same words are read aloud, marked letter by letter, split into units, and every miss comes back on a schedule — and it is still here next week.
What actually comes out of the printer
The Friday sheet is numbered blanks in two columns, a ruled writing line under each number, and a name and date box across the top. The answer key is the marking copy: every word, its scramble, and its gapped form, plus the list rewritten in ABC order. Nothing else is on either page — no navigation, no logo, no advertisement. Print preview is the honest test of a printable site and most of them fail it, because their print stylesheet is a list of things to hide and sooner or later somebody adds a thing.
Weekday pages sit behind ticks on the maker: write the word three times, look-cover-write, a scramble, missing letters, ABC order, and a three-column study list with the example sentence under each word. The certificate is a bordered page for after a sitting, carrying the name, the list, the score and the date. Every sheet is ordinary HTML printed by the browser — no file to open, nothing to install.
Paper size, margins and the two settings that matter
The stylesheet asks for a 14mm margin and deliberately says nothing about paper size, so the browser uses whatever the printer is loaded with. The same sheet then comes out correctly on US Letter and on A4 without anybody having a setting to get wrong. If a child needs more room for large handwriting, raise the margin in the print dialog rather than changing the scale.
Two settings in that dialog change what you get. Background graphics can stay off — nothing here depends on it. Headers and footers should stay off too, or the browser prints its own page title and web address along the edges of the child’s test, and that is the one piece of clutter a stylesheet cannot remove for you.
Printing without a printer, and printing in advance
Save as PDF, in that same print dialog, produces the identical sheet as a file. That is how to send one home to a family without a printer, or attach it to a class message. The browser is doing it rather than the site, so the file never passes through anybody else’s server on the way.
A stack of blank numbered sheets is worth having in a drawer. Print the test sheet from an empty list and you get numbered writing lines with no words attached, usable for any dictation on any day — which is what most people actually want from a printable spelling test, rather than a sheet with the answers already on it.
Common questions
Why is there no PDF download button?
Because your browser already has one and it makes a better file. Print, then choose Save as PDF as the destination. A download button would mean either building the PDF on a server, which would send the words off the device, or shipping a large PDF library to every visitor for something the browser does natively.
Can I print the answers for marking?
Yes — tick the answer key. It carries every word with the scramble and the missing-letter form, and the ABC order underneath. The send-home list is the other marking copy: words in order with the example sentence under each.
The printout has a web address at the bottom. How do I remove it?
Your browser is adding that, not the page. In the print dialog, open More settings and switch Headers and footers off. Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox all have the same control under slightly different names.
Will a long list run onto a second page?
Yes, and it breaks between numbered items rather than through the middle of one. About thirty blanks fill a page at the default margin. For forty words on a single sheet, print the word list handout instead — it is set in three columns rather than two.