Words TowerFree to print
Worksheets from your spelling list
Type this week’s words and press Print: each word to read, trace and write four times, then a home spelling test. A QR code on every page opens the same words in the game.
Make worksheets from your list
Free · No sign-up · Also ready-made: weekly lists for grades 1–5, the Grade 1 short vowel pack and the Dolch and Fry lists
Free to print · Phonics
Phonics worksheets: digraphs, magic e, trigraphs
Learning to read? Press a ready-made set or type your child’s words, and print missions: circle the sound team, fix the word, sort, find the magic e. Answers for you on a separate page.
Free · No sign-up · 12 ready-made sets, one for each sound
Three steps
How spelling test prep works
From the column of words the school sends home, to the morning of the test.
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Paste the list, set the date
A plain list, a table or “word - translation” lines go straight in; for a photo of the sheet, a ready request for ChatGPT turns it into words. The game spreads the words so every one is met before the test.
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The child climbs the tower
This week's words are on the doors, and the game says each one. The right door climbs on; a wrong one stays shut and its word comes back later. You see every word's colour on the parents' page.
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Print the sheets and the home test
The same words on paper: look, trace along the dotted line, write four times — and on the last pages a home test, with the words shuffled for you to read aloud.
The child goes to school prepared. Words that were hard come back sooner, words they know return less often, and every tower is built anew. Every step in detail
Beyond the test
Vocabulary games for spelling, sight words and everyday English
One calm climb, many word lists. Choose what your child practises this week.
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Spelling practice before the spelling test
Paste this week's spelling words and the test date. Every word is met before the test, and familiar words turn into spelling practice — for a spelling test or a vocabulary quiz. Spelling practice, step by step
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Sight word games to learn to read
The Dolch sight words (Pre-Primer to grade 3, and nouns) and the first 300 Fry words are built in. The word is spoken, and the child finds how it is written. The sight word games
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Everyday English vocabulary
Sets of 10, 50, 100, 300, 500 and 1000 useful English words, with translations, spoken pronunciations and 454 illustrations: vocabulary building for young children and for families learning English as a new language.
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Vocabulary review games that bring words back
Words the child knows come back less often; hard words return sooner, and a wrong door brings its word back later. The parents' page shows every word as new, learning, familiar or mastered.
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Vocabulary word games online
Nothing to install: play in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone, or in Chrome's side panel next to homework. No ads and no sign-up.
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For students at home and in class
Each child keeps their own list, progress and test date on one device. The game speaks to families in English, French, German, Russian and two kinds of Spanish; outside English, a translation hint helps.
Calm by design
- The challenge is the words, not the controls: no timers, no jumps to time, gaps are hopped automatically.
- Walk with the arrow keys, or with big on-screen buttons on a tablet or phone.
- Falling off a ledge costs nothing — a little submarine brings the hero back to climb again.
- No ads, no purchases, no tracking in the game. No sign-up needed to play.
Chrome
In Chrome's side panel, next to homework
The same game runs in Chrome's side panel: one click on the toolbar icon, a tower beside the homework tab, then back to work.
From a parent
Monday: a boring column of words. Friday: no mistakes.
My son Leo is in first grade. On Monday the school sent home this week's spelling list — just a column of words, and the test on Friday. We pasted the list into Words Tower, and the boring column became a tower to climb: instead of me asking him to practise, he kept running back to it on his own. On Friday he wrote the spelling test without a single mistake. Next week's list goes straight into the game.
Before you start
Questions parents ask
Does my child need an account?
No. The game works without signing up, and progress stays in the browser on your device. If you want it on another computer or phone too, a parent can sign in with an e-mail code and save the family’s progress privately; you can export or delete it at any time.
Can I use our school spelling list?
Yes. Paste the list in Test prep — a plain list, a table or “word - translation” lines — and set the test date. The game spreads the new words so each one is met before the test, and you print practice sheets with a home test at the end.
Which sight word lists are included?
The Dolch lists (Pre-Primer, Primer, grades 1 to 3 and nouns) and the first 300 Fry words.
Can we practise on paper too?
Yes. Print a word list for the fridge, or practice sheets where each word is read, traced along a dotted line and written four times — with a home test on the last page: empty lines for your child and a page for you with the words to read aloud.
Is it a vocabulary game or a spelling game?
Both. A new word is learned as vocabulary: the game shows it, with its picture if it has one, and says it aloud, and the child finds its door. Once a word is familiar it turns into spelling practice, and the printed practice sheets add handwriting.
Can teachers use it in class?
Yes. On the class page a teacher types the week’s spelling words once and sends families one link; each week the words change there, and every child’s game takes them by itself. At school it works as one of the classroom vocabulary games on any computer with a browser: nothing to install and no accounts.
Does the game have ads?
No. There are no ads, no in-game purchases and no tracking in the game.
What is the board of the year?
An optional board of words learned this year. A player appears on it only after choosing to join, under a made-up nickname; nothing about the child is sent before that. A new board starts every 1 January. See the board.
Is it hard to control?
No. The hero walks with the arrow keys or on-screen buttons and hops gaps by itself. The only challenge is remembering the words.