Spellee (OwnSlides)

About Spellee (OwnSlides)

Spellee is one of the daily games on OwnSlides, a language-learning platform. Each numbered day brings six English words in a ladder of difficulty. You press Play the word to hear it, then type how it is spelled; a row of six locks across the top fills in as you go.

There is one try per word, and replays of the audio are limited, so the game rewards careful listening. The words are chosen to have one standard dictionary spelling, so homophones and words with several accepted spellings are left out. As you play you also see each word's meaning and usage.

A new set appears at midnight UTC, with a countdown on the page and a leaderboard of the day's scores. You can play without an account; signing up saves your streak and stats, earns points, adds you to the leaderboard and unlocks extra practice rounds. OwnSlides also runs Speakle, a pronunciation game, and Langle, a guess-the-language game.

How to play Spellee (OwnSlides)

1. Open Spellee on ownslides.com and press Play today's Spellee.
2. Press Play the word to hear the first word read aloud.
3. Type its spelling and submit; you have one try per word.
4. Replay the audio if you need to, but replays are limited.
5. Work through all six words, from easy to hardest, and compare your score on the leaderboard.

Tips

• Listen at least twice before typing on the hard words, if replays allow.
• For loanwords, think about the source language's spelling conventions.
• Watch for silent letters at the start or middle of a word.
• Use headphones in a quiet place.

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