Party game for adults
Cast the board to the TV, pick Gen Z Slang or the Adult Edition pack, and let the audience arm sabotages. Spell It or Sip It turns every miss into a sip.
For every crowd
Online spelling games for groups
Most spelling games online are single-player quizzes. Spellmates is a live, shared-screen spelling bee built for a room full of people: one board on the TV, a phone in every hand, and an audience allowed to sabotage the person spelling.
Pick your occasion
Family game night
Everyday Words and Commonly Misspelled keep it clean, and Survivor mode gives kids and grandparents the same shot at the title.
Classroom spelling bee
Run a live spelling bee without index cards: definitions, example sentences and word origins are read out automatically, and scoring is handled for you.
Remote team game
Share your screen on a video call. Everyone joins from their own phone with the room code, so distributed teams play the same night.
Two players
Head-to-head works too — alternate turns, sabotage each other, and The Crew keeps your lifetime record and rivalry stats.
What you get
- Shared screen + phone controllers
- Yes — one board, everyone's phone
- Download or account required
- No — join with a 4-letter code
- Word definitions read aloud
- Yes, with example sentences and origins
- Sabotages and power-ups
- Six, voted by the audience
- Team mode and steals
- Yes — squads, assists and one steal per player free
- Players
- 2–4 free, up to 100 with Spellmates Plus
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Urdu
- Price
- Free to host and play; Plus unlocks every pack, longer games and bigger rooms
How a round plays out
The board picks a word from your chosen packs and reads it aloud to the speller's phone only. The rest of the room sees the spelling on the big screen and votes on sabotages — hiding the definition, cutting the clock to 15 seconds, or forcing the word backward. The speller types on their phone, letters check themselves live, and points land for speed and streaks. Full rules are on the how to play page, and the lists are on the word packs page.
Ready to ruin a friendship?
Free to play in the browser. No downloads, no accounts — cast one screen and everyone joins with a 4-letter code.