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Printable spelling test sheets

Three printouts from one list: a numbered answer sheet with a name and date line, a word list to send home, and a certificate for whoever got all ten.

One word per line, or paste a comma-separated list. Numbering and bullets are stripped. A sentence after a pipe is read out with the word.

Your list, the answers and any name you type stay in this browser — nothing is uploaded. The built-in lists are compiled by spelling pattern, not issued by a curriculum authority. Check this before you rely on it. This spelling test maker is provided free and without warranty, and its results are not professional advice.

SpellingTestMaker spelling test

Name ____________________ Date ____________

Listen to each word and write it on the line. Put your name at the top first.

SpellingTestMaker spelling test

Name ____________________ Date ____________

Look at the word, cover it, write it, then check. Repeat any you get wrong.

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Spelling certificate

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SpellingTestMaker spelling test

Score ______ out of ______

Date ____________

What actually comes out of the printer

The test sheet is numbered blanks in two columns, a ruled writing line under each number, and a name and date box across the top. Nothing else is on the page: no navigation, no logo, no advertisement, no address along the footer. 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.

The word list handout is the same words in three columns with the example sentence under each, sized to fit one sheet up to about forty-five words. The certificate is a bordered page carrying the name, the list, the score and the date. All three are ordinary HTML printed by the browser — no PDF to download, 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 — the word list handout is the marking copy, since it carries every word in order with its sentence underneath. Print one of those and a stack of test sheets and you have the whole set.

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.

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