Welcome to spelling Bee Ninja (SBN), the best tool for spelling bee training.
Here follows the list of features offered, read it carefully to get an comprehensive idea of what you can do with SBN:

Official Spelling tests with proper words lists for each grade

You can take as many Official spelling tests as you want using our amazing Spelling Bee Ninja web app.
Words list for Official tests are provided by the system accordingly to your grade/level as SBN database contains difficulty information about every English word.
Read more more about Spelling Tests.

Tailored Spelling Tests with Smart Training system

SBN keeps track of the words you spelled correctly in the past and the ones you misspelled.
Use the Smart Training to learn new words and verify the one you learned, in particular when starting a new Spelling test, under the "Words Source" option:
Choose "Smart Training Learn" to train using new words for your grade and the words you misspelled in the past.
Choose "Smart Training Review" to take a spelling test using words you are supposed to know already (i.e. that you spelled correctly in past tests), this feature is very useful to review your knowledge.
You can reset what Smart Trainer learned about you under the "Student Statistics" page.
Read more more about Smart Trainer.

Unofficial Spelling tests with custom created lists

You can also take custom spelling tests using your own words lists, the ones you created using the spelling bee search engine, or the one you imported through the import function.
Read more more about Spelling Tests.

Create spelling words lists

Using SBN you can create your own Spelling words list, you can use your own words or use the ones provided by the spelling bee search engine.
Add your words to "My Words" basket and from there save them to a new list or add to an existing one.
Read more more about My Words.

Import words into your lists

Using the Import words function you can create a custom spelling list from any text or list found online or from your teacher, just paste the list into the import box and your list will be ready to be used for spelling tests.
Read more more about Working with Spelling Lists.

Spelling List sharing and embedding in your website

The spelling lists you create can be embedded in your website as well.
Just remember to save the list as public (visible to everybody), use the "Embed" button and copy the html code in your webpage.
Read more more about Embedding Spelling Listsin web pages.

Get Spelling bee related information for every single word

Every word is linked to a card containing spelling bee related insights, difficulty level and more. The more students take spelling tests the more Spelling Bee Ninja learns about words' difficulty.
Also it can define how difficult a word is for students from different nations.
Read more more about Spelling Words Search Engine.

Listen to pronunciation

You can also hear the proper, letter by letter, English pronunciation for each word.
Read more more about Spelling Word Card.

Error List containing the misspelled words

All the words you misspelled during your tests will be added in a special list called Error List, that you should consider for improving your spelling skills.
Read more more about Error List.

Spelling test report card

After every spelling test a detailed report card will be created.
The card will contain reporting your score, errors, timing, percentages, school and world ranking and other details about your test.
The misspelled words will be listed in tables along with the correct ones and automatically added to your "Error list".
Read more more about Report Cards.

Certificates of Achievement

If you score very high in an Official spelling test, Spelling Bee Ninja will reward you with an official, electronic Certificates of Achievement , that you can save and print.
Read more more about Certificates of Achievement.

Top spellers world rankings

All the Official Spelling Tests scores are recorded into the Spelling Bee world rankings.
Rankings are divided by students' grade, there is also a world top 100 spellers.
Read more more about Spellers Rankings.

School Top spellers

Setup your school to compete against your school and class mates and get into your School Spelling Bee ranking.
You can set your school when registering or from your profile.
If you can't find your school in the schools' DB, just set the requested data (school name, country and city); we will add it to our database in few hours.
Read more more about Set your school.

Multiple Students for family accounts

By creating a family account you can setup multiple students in the same account, so, if you have many kids preparing for spelling bee you can manage all of them from a single account.
Read more more about Our Plans.

Teachers accounts with up to 30 invited students per class

If you are a teacher, you can create a classroom or teacher account, that will allow you to invite your student to join you as teacher when creating their own accounts.
From a teacher account you can control your students' activity, assign spelling tests and keep track of results.
Read more more about Our Plans.

What is Spelling Bee Ninja?

Spelling Bee Ninja (SBN for short) is a system that can improve your spelling capabilities very quickly.
It has been designed as a trainer for Spelling bee competitions.
It provides functions to build custom spelling lists, handling students, taking Spelling Bee tests and keeping track of results.
Moreover it can provide spelling related information for each English word.
Read more more about Spelling Bee Ninja.

Will SBN increase my spelling capabilities?

We think so:
Spelling Bee Ninja is based on data provided by spelling tests from users from all over the world.
It can learn the difficulty level of a given word depending on student's nationality.
It also offers unique features for spelling bee training, such as custom words list, error tracking and unlimited spelling bee tests.
That is why we are confident that SBN, when properly used, will improve your spelling skills very quickly.

Is Spelling Bee Ninja free to use?

You can use spelling bee ninja for free at the following address
The most advanced features, that we strongly suggest if you are serious on Spelling Bee training, comes at a small fee.
See the plans page here.

Where do I start?

First of all create a free account here,
Then have a look to the quick start page that will give you an overview of the training process.
SBN is mainly based on building up spelling bee lists and taking spelling tests, then checking for errors and repeat.
Word lists can be custom made, imported or automatically provided by SBN dictionary, that will provide words lists accordingly with student grade and skill level.
Each account can handle one or more students (that can be used for instance by families with more than one kid).
Teachers can use a teacher account to train a whole class of students, assign common lists and spelling tests as homeworks.
Please refer to the how to page
Read more more about Spelling Bee Ninja.

What is the Spelling Bee search Engine?

It is a tool provided by Spelling Bee Ninja,
The search engine will provide, for each word, spelling bee related information, such as difficulty level and statistics.
Each word card provides a button that will add the word to "My Words" list, ready to be saved to an existing or a new spelling list and used in custom spelling tests.
The search engine can provide words list for a given grade, to see all the options provided please refer to the Syntax Page.
Read more more about Spelling Words Search Engine.

Should I set up my school when registering?

This is up to you as it is not mandatory, but yes, we think it is a good idea.
When setting up your school, your account will be coupled with the school and you will have the possibility to compete against your class and school mates.
Also you will get access to dedicated school and class rankings along with the world rankings.
Spelling Bee Ninja comes with a database of schools,
if you cannot find your school, just enter the school details in the form and we will add it in our database in few hours.
Read more more about Set your school.

What is a Spelling Bee achievement certificate?

It is a digital certificate that we release to each student that performs a very high score in a spelling bee test.
It comes under the form of an high resolution image, specifying the student's name, grade and the score achieved in the spelling test.
A Spelling Bee certificate is private, accessible only from the student's account, in the report card page, ready to be printed and framed, or saved on your local drive and eventually shared with friends.
When a student earns such kind of certificate, a confirmation/congratulation email will be sent, containing the link to the related report card.
Read more more about Certificates of Achievement.

Take an Official Spelling Test.

Official Tests are Spelling Bee Tests taken using the official spelling bee dictionary.
To take an official Spelling Test please Choose "Official SBN Dictionary" in Test Settings.
Official Tests leads to official scores.
If a student scores 800 or more in an Official Spelling Test, then an Achievement certificate will be emitted to the student.
The Certificate is represented by a signed, high resolution image, stating the achievement and can be accessed through the test result page.
Only owners and tutors (if any) can access to the Official Certificate. However, it will be possible to save a local copy by right-clicking over the image and choosing "Save Image as".

Take a Spelling Test using the Smart Training option.

For each student Spelling Bee Ninja keeps track of both misspelled and correctly spelled words.
Using this data, The smart training mode can automatically provide proper words list to use in Spelling Tests.
Smart training can provide Spelling Tests to LEARN new words and spelling tests to REVIEW the words you are supposed to know (i.e. words that you spelled correctly in previous tests).
Select SBN Smart Training Learn or SBN Smart Training Review under the "Words Source" option, accordingly with your needs.

Explore words and create Spelling Lists

Search your spelling words by browsing lists or using the Search engine, add the words of your interest to "My Words".
"My Words" is a temporary area to collect words that you plan to save as a new list: from "My Words" you can save the current selection to a new list or add it to an existing one.
Your Lists can be used to take spelling tests or assigned to your students (both local and invited).
Each word is linked to a word card containing spelling bee related insights, such as difficulty level, percentage of mispelling and correlation between students' language/nationality and error ratio.
Click the speaker icon to listen to the spelling and pronunciation of each word.
Import words contained in any text using copy paste by clicking the "Import Words" button under "My words". Search function is provided by the Spelling Bee Search Engine, check the syntax here.

List visibility

A spelling list can be public, reserved to your students or private.
A public list will be made publicly available and visible to every user and visitor of the system.
Reserved lists will be available to you and to your students, private lists will be only visible from your account.

Embed List into your website

Public Spelling lists can be embedded in your web pages.
To embed a spelling list just set the list as public and press the Embed button.
Copy the html code and paste it into the web page where you want to embed the list.

Spelling Tests

To take spelling tests it is necessary to create one or more students.
If you already have created a student, Click "Spelling Bee", Spelling Bee Ninja will start, you will be able to select which student use for the test and which spelling list.
Also you can choose whether use the Smart Training mode or take an Official Spelling Test.

Activate a premium license.

To activate your premium license (Student, Family or Class) and update your basic profile, first login here, then go to your account page and press the "Redeem Code" button.
In the dialog box that will pop up, please enter the ACTIVATION CODE you received via email and press "Activate". If you need support with the activation procedure don't hesitate to contact us.

Create students.

To add a new student to your account go to "My Students" in your account Menu and click "Add student". To create a student it is necessary to be logged in. If you don't have an account yet, please Sign Up here.

Inviting students.

Depending on your profile you can add local students or invited students or both. Local students can use the system directly through your account. Invited students are students with their own account.
Use Invited students if you are a teacher (Tutor) and want to coordinate and control your class activities, providing each student with a separate account.
Invited student will have to sign up with a separate account, indicating their invitation code (or using the special link you will be able to send them via email), as the invited student will join, you will be notified and you will be able to assign spelling lists and tests, check test results and errors.
Invited students can create their own lists, but cannot edit their data.
A tutor can create custom Spelling lists that will be made available to invited students for spelling tests, moreover, a tutor can access to students' error lists and detailed test results.

Monitor results and progress.

Spelling Results will be stored for each user and will be accessible from the Student Card by pressing the "Report Cards" button.
Each student will have a special list called "Error List" accessible from the student profile card, that will be automatically filled with the misspelled words.

The Spelling Bee Search Engine can generate custom spelling words lists to help you mastering spelling bee competitions and improve your spelling skills, here follows a detailed description of the spelling search engine syntax.

Search for a word

To search for a given word or part of it just type it in the box, in case of multiple words only the first will be considered, word must be 3 or more charachters long.
Example:
house

Using wild cards

You can use one wild card character % to indicate one or more generic characters, you can use it one time at the beginning in the middle or at the end of a query.
Examples (click to execute):
ho%e
hoe%
%hoe

Search for a word of a given grade

Enter your word or part of the word and specify the difficulty grade with the grade instruction.
Example:
grade:3 ous
will retrieve the words for grade 3 containing 'ous', when using this type of search the specified word must be 3 or more characters long.

Get a generic spelling list for a given grade

Just type in the grade instruction for the desired difficulty.
Example (click to execute):
grade:8
will geneate a spelling words list of 10 elements for the 8th graders grade.

Get a spelling list for a given grade by starting letter:

if you want a list of words starting with a given letter then specify the letter (only one).
Example (click to execute):
grade:4 s

Difficulty grades

The difficulty grades specified by the grade: instruction range from 1 to 10. In particular (click to execute):
grade:1 Grade 1 difficulty.
grade:2 Grade 2 difficulty.
grade:3 Grade 3 difficulty.
grade:4 Grade 4 difficulty.
grade:5 Grade 5 difficulty.
grade:6 Grade 6 difficulty.
grade:7 Grade 7 difficulty.
grade:8 Grade 8 difficulty.
grade:9 Adult grade difficulty.
grade:10 Very hard difficulty.

Word Type modifiers

You can limit your search to given types of words (example adverbs or nouns) adding the following modifier to the query:
!adverb or '!adv' : search only for adverbs.
!preposition or '!prep' : search only for Prepositions.
!conjunction or '!conj' : search only for Conjunctions.
!adjective or '!adj' : search only for Adjectives.
!pronoun or '!pron' : search only for Pronouns.
!article or '!art' : search only for Articles.
!noun or '!n' : search only for Nouns.

Spelling Bee Ninja offers a wide range of spelling tournaments opened to students from all over the world to make spelling training rewarding and fun, plus an official world league called WOSL is hosted by SBN.
Tournaments comes with different requirements and difficulty settings, such as difficulty level, student grade, number of words per test and so forth.
The purpose is to score as high as possible, possibly winning the tournament and the prizes reserved for the top scorers.
Each tournament has a rankings page from where each student can check the actual top scorers.

Take a test valid for a tournament

Once the tournament is started, it is possible to take valid tests directly from the tournament page, using the “Test” button.
Reach out the tournament page from the tournaments page, using the proper filters. Usually, each participant can take as many tests whenever he/she wants while the tournament is opened; some tournaments though could limit the number of tries for a single participant.

Training for an upcoming Tournament

By clicking the “Training” button from the tournament page, you can take training spelling tests to prepare for the tournament before (and during) the start date.
Training tests won’t be considered for the tournament final rankings but are stored and managed as valid SBN tests, valid for the world rankings and student statistics.
At the end of each test a score will be assigned.
Train as more as possible to increase you chances to win, our aim is to turn every participant into a spelling bee master, don’t forget to invite your schoolmates to join too.

To join a tournament

1) First login at http://mai.spellingbee.ninja/login (if you don't have an account yet you can create one in seconds at https://mai.spellingbee.ninja/signup )
2) Create a student for your account, go to https://mai.spellingbee.ninja/students and add the student you want to join the tournament specifying Name grade and school.
3) point your browser to the tournaments page at https://mai.spellingbee.ninja/tournaments and click on the row corresponding to the tournament you want to join among the ones with status: Ready to Join.
4) Click the "Join" button in the tournament page, if the admission is not automatic, wait for an email confirming your admission to the tournament.
5) Once admitted, use the Train button from the tournament page to prepare for the tournament 6) Check the tournament page to know the start and end date of the event and how many official tries are allowed for the tournament.
Train as more as possible to increase you chances to win, our aim is to turn every participant into a spelling bee master, don't forget to invite your schoolmates to join too.

WOSL - World Online Spelling League

Spelling Bee Ninja hosts a series of weekly tournaments divided by grade belonging to an official spelling league called WOSL (World Online Spelling League).
WOSL tournaments will be marked with the official WOSL logo below.



All participating student will gain reputation among WOSL students as the participation counter will increase by 1 and the top 3 will earn a badge that will be shown in their public page.
Tournaments, as usual are free to join and are divided by grade, so there will be a different tournament depending on the student grade, plus one tournament containing only VERY DIFFICULT words opened to students of every age and grade, including adults.
The series proposes new rounds every week.
Check our tournaments page to check them all and join.