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Spelling crosswords are the perfect way to turn a routine language drill into an engaging challenge. Players will encounter a variety of themes, from notoriously difficult words like accommodation to tricky homophones and silent letter traps. Whether you are a spelling bee champion or just looking to improve your daily writing, these puzzles offer a fun and rewarding mental workout.
Crossword clues used in spelling puzzles, with answers and links to play.
“A meaningful unit of speech, or a promise made to another”
WORD (4)
“Mechanical repetition that keeps spelling champions reciting in their sleep”
ROTE (4)
“An investigation into the dusty, historical roots of our vocabulary”
ETYMOLOGY (9)
“An industrious insect that somehow gathered a crowd to recite letters in public”
BEE (3)
“A system of pauses and stops that prevents sentences from running forever”
PUNCTUATION (11)
“A slip of the finger that turns a hero into a zero”
TYPO (4)
“A tiny curve that cuts a vowel's performance short”
BREVE (5)
“The core of a plant that supports prefixes and suffixes alike”
STEM (4)
“The strict set of laws governing how letters must behave in public”
ORTHOGRAPHY (11)
“The absolute peak of orthographic achievement”
ACME (4)
“Uttered aloud rather than written down on a dusty page”
SPOKEN (6)
“The underground base where all family words branch out”
ROOT (4)
“A shiny surface or a brief note explaining a difficult word”
GLOSS (5)
“The dictionary headword that rules over all its inflected variations”
LEMMA (5)
“A shorthand identity forged from the initial letters of a longer title”
ACRONYM (7)
“Mysterious ancient scratch mark that carries a magical curse or a phonetic sound”
RUNE (4)
“A single carved character that tells a silent story”
GLYPH (5)
“A typographical marriage where two letters fuse into one”
LIGATURE (8)
“What anxious competitors do on stage while trying to recall if it is I before E”
FRET (4)
“To dress foreign words in familiar alphabetic clothing”
TRANSLITERATE (13)
“The daunting art of trapping and defining every word in a heavy book”
LEXICOGRAPHY (12)
“The word by which a person or thing is known”
NAME (4)
“A word or phrase used to describe a concept”
TERM (4)
“A series of words written one after another”
LIST (4)
“A method of teaching reading by sounding out letters”
PHONICS (7)
“A set of buttons used for typing on a computer”
KEYBOARD (8)
“A group of letters added to the beginning of a word”
PREFIX (6)
“A set of printed pages bound together in a cover”
BOOK (4)
“To name the letters of a word in order”
SPELL (5)
“Written or printed words on a page”
TEXT (4)
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