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Here is a comprehensive list of spelling apps thanks to the University of Michigan:
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows independent discovery of an unknown spelling or a quick check on an uncertain word.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
A1 Spelling App teaches kids to spell by letting them hear words aloud and by utilizing repetition to help them remember. Words are accompanied by kid-friendly pictures.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
ACT Spell allows you to create your own word base of spelling words while keeping the spelling process simple.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
American Wordspeller is an app that allows you to find words that you may not know how to spell, but can sound out phonetically.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to link letters left, right, up, and down to build words in a game format. Bigger words return better bonuses.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app includes nearly 2 million easily accessible words. You can view definitions and synonyms with dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, with no internet connection required.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app teaches about letters, how letters relate to sounds, and how to spell words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Flashcards for iPad is a great app for young children just learning basic words or kids learning a second language. Pictures and sounds accompany each word, making it easy for kids to learn both the spelling and sound!
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
iSpell Word is an app designed to help kids learn simple English words. The app is in a game format, making it fun and interactive.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
iSpellBetter is a fun game with increasingly challenging levels and adjustable difficulty modes to help with spelling.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Jumbline is a word puzzle that challenges your speed, agility, pattern recognition, and spelling prowess as you try and find all the possible words within a set of letters. It includes a built-in dictionary.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app provides a fun way to overcome common letter reversals such as b’s and d’s. The app’s activities teach left from right and allows users to practice what they learned by practicing their letter discrimination skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app offers voice search to let you look up a word without having to spell it. It includes a thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, and is a great reference tool.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Montessori Crosswords can help you develop reading, writing, and spelling skills. Build words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app helps children master basic sight words so they can build a solid foundation in spelling. The app focuses on word recognition rather than word memorization.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 contains 450 words divided into 42 different lists based on patterns and difficulty. Each list builds on the previous one to ensure that students learn the words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app builds on Simplex Spelling Phonics 1, adding 650 more words in 54 different lists. Phonics 2 focuses on syllables and more difficult words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
This powerful app can not only help improve spelling, but it has word prediction and auto-completion features, text-to-speech with word highlighting, a built-in dictionary, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app is a combination dictionary and spell checker, so you can make sure your e-mails, papers, and other important documents are error-free.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a fun way to create spelling lists and spelling bees, It’s perfect for learning SAT words, managing your kid’s weekly words list, or mastering words that give you trouble.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.3.3 and up.
This app teaches you how to spell thousands of words with clear audio clips and increasing difficulty.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app contains over 13,000 words at 10 different difficulty levels and works just like the spelling bee! There are also options to practice spelling or take spelling tests before taking the challenge.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app uses word prediction and has a sophisticated spelling error model to help you focus on the content of your writing. Typ-O is able to identify the most common spelling mistakes and will often suggest words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This fun app teaches basic sight words and enhances spelling skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Word Dynamo combines with Dictionary.com’s entire word library to help students master word learning. It includes different learning modes, such as audio, flashcards, and definition matching.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Word Fall is a fun way to practice spelling. As the words rain down from the sky, you have to spell as many as you can. The app has a dictionary and awards bonus points for longer words, helping kids increase their vocabulary.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This word play app gives clues to help you complete a word ladder puzzle.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
This app teaches words and spelling. You are able to set initial, medial, or final position in words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Word Wizard combines text-to-speech capabilities with spelling tasks to allow kids to hear each word and letter while spelling it. The app contains over 1,400 words but allows you to add more and create your own spelling list.
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