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Homophones

Medium · 15×15 · 15 words
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  1. 1. Sounds like serial, but it's a breakfast food made from grain
  2. 6. Sounds like thrown, but it's the chair a king or queen sits on
  3. 7. Sounds like course, but it means rough in texture
  4. 11. Sounds like compliment, but it means something that completes another thing
  5. 14. Sounds like waste, but it's the middle part of your body

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  1. 1. Sounds like sensor, but it means to remove unacceptable content
  2. 2. Sounds like isle, but it's a walkway between rows of seats
  3. 3. Sounds like whether, but it means the conditions outside like rain or sun
  4. 4. Sounds like vein and vane, but it means too proud of your looks
  5. 5. Sounds like principle, but it means the head of a school
  6. 8. Sounds like stationery, but it means not moving
  7. 9. Sounds like desert, but it's the sweet course after a meal
  8. 10. Sounds like bury, but it's a small juicy fruit
  9. 12. Sounds like prophet, but it means the money earned above costs
  10. 13. Sounds like mussel, but it's tissue in the body that helps you move

Homophones

Easy · 11×11 · 15 words
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  1. 3. Sounds like weak, but it means seven days
  2. 4. Sounds like flower, but you use it to bake bread
  3. 6. Sounds like male, but it's letters delivered to your house
  4. 8. Sounds like piece, but it means calm with no fighting
  5. 10. Sounds like brake, but it means to split something apart
  6. 11. Sounds like tale, but it's the part an animal wags
  7. 12. Sounds like not, but it's a tangled loop in a rope

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  1. 1. Sounds like bare, but it's a large furry animal
  2. 2. Sounds like sun, but it means a boy compared to his parent
  3. 3. Sounds like right, but it means to put words on paper
  4. 5. Sounds like see, but it's a large body of salt water
  5. 6. Sounds like meet, but you buy it at a butcher shop
  6. 7. Sounds like heard, but it means a group of animals
  7. 8. Sounds like plane, but it means simple or ordinary
  8. 9. Sounds like ate, but it's the number after seven

Spelling

Hard · 15×15 · 19 words
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  1. 6. A little hook under a C to make it soft
  2. 7. Another word for a word that means the same thing
  3. 10. The smallest sound bite in the linguistic menu
  4. 12. Right writing in a graph, essentially
  5. 14. Converting the script but keeping the sound
  6. 16. Tracing the family tree of a phrase
  7. 17. The lazy sound that hides in every unstressed corner
  8. 18. Two dots that give a German vowel some flair

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  1. 1. Whether a letter stands tall or stays small
  2. 2. The style in which your characters choose to dress
  3. 3. A carved character that might be a bit of a mystery
  4. 4. A wavy line found riding atop an N
  5. 5. A little map at the back of the book
  6. 8. A typographical marriage between two characters
  7. 9. A gathering of competitors who fear the letter Z
  8. 10. Two words packed into one suitcase
  9. 11. An overhead mark that shows possession or absence
  10. 13. The ancient mark for division or a sharp point
  11. 15. To write with keys or a specific kind of character

Spelling

Medium · 11×11 · 11 words
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  1. 1. The most common unstressed vowel sound in English
  2. 3. A, E, I, O, U, or sometimes Y
  3. 9. The conventional spelling system of a language
  4. 10. A competitive gathering of spellers
  5. 11. A single character of the alphabet

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  1. 2. NASA or SCUBA, for example
  2. 4. The study of the origin of words
  3. 5. A word that sounds like another but has a different spelling
  4. 6. The ability to read and write proficiently
  5. 7. Board game where you build words for points
  6. 8. The standard set of letters used to write a language

Spelling

Easy · 7×7 · 8 words
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  1. 5. To remove a pencil mistake from paper
  2. 6. A single character of the alphabet
  3. 8. A single unit of language consisting of letters

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  1. 1. An exam used to check a student's knowledge
  2. 2. The specific word used to identify a person
  3. 3. A competitive spelling contest
  4. 4. The set of guidelines for correct grammar
  5. 7. To look at and understand written text
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