One photo of the spelling list becomes a quiz
One photo of the spelling list becomes a quiz your kid taps through.
ChatGPT in your phone’s browser, free, without logging in.
The spelling test is Friday, and the list is on the fridge. Take a picture of that list, and ChatGPT builds a multiple choice spelling quiz on your phone. Every question puts the real word next to three wrong spellings that ChatGPT made up. Here, decreased sits beside a version with a double e in the middle. It's free, and you don't even have to log in.
Take one photo of the printed list
Take one flat, well-lit photo of the printed list.
Close enough that every word is easy to read.
Photo: jencu, CC BY 2.0, cropped
Step one. Lay the list flat on the table, under a good light. Hold your phone straight over the paper so the whole sheet fits in the picture. One photo is plenty. The list here is a real school worksheet called The Mysterious Tadpole, with ten words on it. Someone shared that photo online for anyone to reuse with credit.
Open chatgpt.com in your phone’s browser
Open chatgpt.com in your phone’s browser.
Step two. On your phone, go to ChatGPT dot com, the same way you'd open any website. You don't need an account, and you don't pay anything. You can ignore the Log in button in the top corner.
Add the photo of the list with the plus sign
Add the photo of the list with the plus sign.
The plus sign is labelled “Add files and more”.
Step three. Tap the plus sign on the left side of the box that says Ask ChatGPT. Then tap Photos, and pick your picture of the list. A small copy of the photo shows up in the box, ready to send.
Type this
Type this under the photo, then tap send.
Step four. Copy this card word for word. You can screenshot it. Here's my kid's spelling list. First, write out every word on it. Then quiz my kid one word at a time: show the right spelling and three wrong ones, and ask which spelling is right. Use only the words on this list, and stop after the last one. The card asks ChatGPT to write out every word. That line puts the list on your screen, so you can check that ChatGPT read the paper right. The card also asks which spelling is right. That line keeps the quiz on spelling. Without that line, ChatGPT can quiz what each word means instead. Last, the card says to use only the words on this list. That line stops ChatGPT from adding words of its own. Then tap the arrow to send.
Check the list, then hand your kid the phone
Check the list, then hand your kid the phone.
Compare its count with your list.
Step five. ChatGPT writes out the list first, so check it against the paper, word by word. Then the quiz appears, and your kid gets the phone. Your kid taps an answer. A wrong answer turns red with a one-line reason, and the right spelling turns green. In this quiz, the red choice was misleading spelled with a double e, and the reason said the middle vowel was wrong. Tap Next for the next word. At the end, ChatGPT gives a score, like six out of seven correct. This quiz asked about only seven of the ten words on the list. In our four tries, ChatGPT skipped up to three words, and its score only counts the questions it asked. So count the questions against the paper, and practice any skipped words together. If ChatGPT says it couldn't make the quiz, start a new chat and send the photo and the same words again.
Three near-miss spellings for each question
ChatGPT makes up three near-miss spellings for each question.
Your kid picks the real one.
Here's the real quiz, question one of ten. Which spelling is right? Three of the choices are near misses of decreased, and the fourth is the real word. Believable wrong spellings are hard to come up with on the spot at the kitchen table. ChatGPT invents all three wrong choices for each question it asks. In this same quiz, recovered shows up missing its last e. Disorderly shows up with an a where the e belongs. Renewable gets a u in place of the e w. Unhappiness gets a y where the i goes. Every wrong choice in these quizzes is a made-up word, so the only real word on the card is the right answer. Picking out the right spelling is good practice. On Friday your kid still has to write each word, so say a few out loud tonight and have your kid spell them back.
Try this tonight
Try this tonight with the list on your fridge.
Flip flashcards · ChatGPT release notes, Sept 22, 2026
Grab the list off the fridge and take one photo. Then open ChatGPT dot com, add the photo, and type the card. OpenAI also added flip flashcards to every ChatGPT plan on September twenty-second, and those come with an account. Without logging in, you get the tap-through quiz. Then hand the phone to your kid.
