Kids' Words Spelling1.4 - App Store

A spelling game for children ages 5 to 8. Your child hears a word, then builds it from letters that arrive scrambled. Every letter says its own name as your child places it.

What your child does

A word is spoken out loud. Its letters slide in out of order. Your child drags each one into place, hearing the letter named as they move it, and the whole word is spoken again once it's finished.

Nothing is filled in to start. Your child spells the entire word, which is the difference between this and an app that asks them to pick a missing letter.

Three sets that actually get harder

Set one is four-letter words: dog, bee, rock, pail. Set two moves to two syllables. Set three runs to eleven letters, all the way out to grasshopper and caterpillar. So the same theme works for a five year old in the morning and their older sister that evening.

120 words across 5 themes

Jungle, Mountains, Backyard, Beach and Garden. Every theme holds 24 words in three sets of eight, and the sets were sorted by the phonics pattern each word needs, not by how long it looks. Short vowels and blends come first, then silent-e and vowel teams, then compound and multisyllable words.

Eight words is short enough to finish in one sitting.

Add this week's spelling words

Eight words make a list, the same length as a built-in set, and you can make as many as you like. Type them one per line or paste them from the sheet that came home from school. The week's spelling words, the names of everyone in the family, the long words your child loves saying.

Each new word needs your voice, so record it once and the list is ready to play. Words already in the game come with the teacher's voice. Your list sits beside the built-in sets in its theme, with its own Progress, and every letter still says its name as it's placed.

Record the words in your own voice

Every built-in word comes with a teacher's voice. Tap any word on the Word Lists screen, press Record, and say it. From then on your child hears you whenever that word comes up. Record all 120 built-in words including any custom words you add. Or just the ones your child keeps missing.

Say it the way your family says it, or let a grandparent record a theme. Play both voices back, choose for each word, and switch back to the teacher any time without losing your recording.

Recording sits behind a parents' gate, so your child hears the voices but never reaches the microphone. Record a word once and every child on the device hears it.

Made for children who are still learning their letters

Every word and every letter is spoken. Nothing on screen needs an adult to read it aloud, so your child can play alone.

See how they're doing

Every set is saved to Progress. You'll see the words your child spelled, the ones they keep missing, and how that shifts week to week. Since the words are grouped by pattern, a run of misses usually tells you which pattern to work on.

A profile for every child

Add as many children as you need. Each one keeps their own words and their own progress and picks up where they left off. Works for a family with three kids and a classroom with thirty.

Music written for it

Every theme has its own score from our in-house music studio, with sound effects to match.

Nothing about your child leaves this app

No accounts, no sign in, no ads, no trackers, no third party code of any kind. There's no server to send anything to. Your child's progress, your recordings and your word lists are saved on your device and stay there. The microphone is only on while you're recording.

Not ready to spell yet?

Kids' Words has your child place just the first letter or two, and Kids' Match asks only that they hear the word and find the picture. Same themes, same voice, younger start.

Tell us what's missing

A word you wish we'd included, a theme your class would love, anything that isn't working. Send it to us at info@circular3d.com. We read all of it!

Version History Introducing custom voice recordings and word lists!
- Record words in your own voice, behind a parents' gate. Recordings stay on your device
- Add this week's spelling words as a list of your own. Record each word once and the list is ready to play
- Find both under the Word Lists icon on the home screen 1.4 Sep 14 Improvements and support for new devices 1.3 Aug 11 - Supports the latest devices 1.2 04/04/2023 - Supports newer iOS devices 1.1 12/21/2019 1.0 10/13/2016