SpellingCity Reviews 158

TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

My son used SpellingCity successfully for 5 years. We loved it. It was wonderful. Now, it's been replaced by VocabularyA-Z, a convoluted, inscrutable mess that is totally useless. Have a problem? T... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It would be zero if possible. Have been using Spelling City for years. Since the switch I have had nothing but headaches. It has taken away teacher control over assessment. It is unwieldy, definit... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Since transferring over to A-Z Learning, it's like traversing the MOON. I am very disappointed and enormously frustrated! I spend far too much time trying to find quiz grades when needed, and I feel t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The program (or at least the mobile app) is very laggy, sometimes it will freeze and then it wouldn't save. The audio is very low quality so it's sometimes hard to understand. Games make activities lo... See more

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  1. Education & Training

About SpellingCity

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VocabularySpellingCity is a game-based, interactive educational website and mobile app used to build literacy skills with vocabulary and spelling.

We make word study fun! More than 40 games and activities motivate K-12 students to practice their words.

Teachers, parents, and students can choose from existing word lists or create their own lists for use in VocabularySpellingCity’s activities.

We offer memberships for families, schools, and districts.


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Its garbage

Its garbage, The games are terribly bad, The Look is terribly bad, Some of the games never end and my son smashed the computer because he ho got mad.

23 November 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

it is really poorly done there is many…

it is really poorly done there is many glitches that never get patched overall it is a really poorly done game with teribbal voice acting and some games that take an hour to do such as letter fall that game is way to hard for childrin it takes about an hour to beat so thats my opinon on spelling city

20 November 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

spelling city is bad

every time I hear my teacher say its time to play spelling city I literally hit my computer I get like 20 vocabulary words and hang mouse it literally took me 48 minutes plus it never helps me in the test the voice acting is honestly most of the time the terrible and personal opinion I hate the splat game where you kill cockroaches like some people have phobias

end of complaint

20 November 2020
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

im not hateingsometimes words s ound…

Im not hating sometimes words sound like other words like for me it wanted for me to spell ask but it sounds like pass.so please get a better quality robot that pronounces the words better.and if the robot is going to spell the words at the begining there is no point of the rest.

9 November 2020
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Please contact us at info@spellingcity.com if you need assistance.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

who would want to create this!!!!!

this site is SO BAD it takes me like 30 mins just to complete word find! I would rate it -100 stars if I could.
I only play these'games' because my teacher makes me. and I don't think making other words with your spelling words will help you with your test. and none of the teachers listen to the reviews!!!!!!!!!

28 October 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

could be better

Why!?!?!??!?! i think this game could do better at teaching.Its bad rushed, hard and is broken.I really dont like the game "letter fall" because it forces me to use the arrows and it takes like 15 mins just for a bad score.You can probably improve! im not hating just the game seemed rushed and maybe you could do better.

20 October 2020
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

some issues

Hello in this website I make forget a word and realize or acdiently press something and it said it is WRONG and spell it and so annoyed after all is great.

20 October 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

this makes kids dumd

im just saying 5 star so i wont get in trouble. but if i would choose i would say 2 star. its useful and stuff like that. but why say the words over and over again? this dosent learn anything for people. why does this exist anyway. make sureto not say the words all over again and fix the difficultie of this

14 October 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No. Just No.

If I could say a 0-rating I DEFINITELY would.

I WANT TO THROW MY COMPUTER OUT THE WINDOW AND STOMP ON IT, AND I LIVE ON THE 20TH FLOOR OF A STORY OF APARTMENTS!

NO ONE SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME...
EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My kids constantly complain about how kiddish this is and I said that this is not the way to behave about a game. I was wrong and I made sure my kids would never play this again.

11 October 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

THIS GAME IS SO BAD!!!!!!!

THIS GAME IS SO BAD!!!!!!!
all the 'games' are for three year old's, if i could give this minus five stars, believe me, i would. my kids complain that it does not teach them to spell and their grades have gone down since they started using this. only good reviews are shown on the website and it is confusing that you cannot find the home page! minus five stars!

11 October 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

THIS IS THE WORST GAME EVER

ugh in the game "sound it out" I put the right letter but it still said it was wrong for example:
_ _ _ _
S S L E
I chose the last s but IT MARKED WRONG then I chose the fist s and it said it was right D:< and the robot voice is SO annoying this game sucks I only play it cause my teacher tells me to

8 October 2020
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Hi,

If you are experiencing issues please have your teacher email us directly.

Thank you,
Client Services Team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

my experience with spellingcity

this sucks. i keep getting spammed with a message by them saying "A message to my students and their parents:
Students and Parents,
You should study using this great teaching resource. VocabularySpellingCity makes learning your word lists fun and easy." but really its laggy and it is so slow at saying the words.
i was given a test that told me to spell 'migants' and i spelt it correctly but it told me i spelt it wrong and that i was supposed to say 'migrant'. so i went back and made it say the word again and it still pronounced it as 'migrants' so i wrote it as 'migrants' but i got it wrong for adding the 's' even when the pronounciation was with the 's'
i have never liked spelling city but now i hate it even more.
it doesnt help that it american based and im in australia, so it doesnt accept all of the words.
please improve your app or get rid of it because i would really appreciate it.

16 August 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The girl voice is so annoying for my…

The girl voice is so annoying for my school he gets so angry and he mess up just because of the voice i will never let my school play this game ever again. and i'm a principle so you might want to change the voice if you want me to use it. You are making kids have bad grades because of spelling city.

4 May 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Spelling city is a stupid dumb place to "learn"

Spelling city is a stupid dumb place to "Learn" it just makes me frustrated because I know its easy but its just so time taking say I have to spell the word disappear in spelling city it takes a solid 10 minutes for the mouse to go to the cheese take it go back and repeat for the next letter Ugh. if I could a 0 star rating

21 April 2020
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

It's good but at the same time I dislike it

I like spelling city an all, but the test-n-teach thing sucks. I dislike it how whenever you get an answer wrong you gotta do all these things like hearing the word 10 000 000 times and even having to say the word out loud like that doesn't do anything. If luck wasn't on your side that day and you kept getting words wrong, the spelling teaching would honestly anger you and discourage you from learning the words. It's okay to correct them, just please make it shorter. Otherwise, I really like the spelling tests. Way better than doing it on paper.

20 April 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

there music in word o pillar is…

there music in word o pillar is horrible

CHANGE IT OR GET RID OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13 January 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

What a teacher time saver this has…

What a teacher time saver this has been!This has made spelling and spelling tests so much easier! The kids love the activities, and I get a grade without spending a half hour on a test, and then longer to grade it. I love the vocabulary lists, and that I can get a list from a novel we are reading in class. Worth the investment!

22 March 2018
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