Spelling Bee Hive MCP Server

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answering

Spelling Bee Hive is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Spelling bee words: spellings, pronunciations, definitions, practice quizzes and winning words.

Uptime history 18 days of history

18 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

567 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Spelling Bee Hive every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add spelling-bee --transport http https://www.spellingbeehive.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://www.spellingbeehive.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.spelling-bee]
url = "https://www.spellingbeehive.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spelling-bee": {
      "url": "https://www.spellingbeehive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "spelling-bee": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.spellingbeehive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

look

look_up_word

Look up an English word in Spelling Bee Hive's catalogue of more than a hundred thousand words: its correct spelling, a pronunciation guide, part of speech, language of origin, definitions and an example sentence, its Spelling Bee Hive difficulty level and practice set, and any spelling bee it was a winning word in. Includes links to the word's page and a recording of it. Use it to check a spelling, or for the clues a speller may ask for in a bee.

practice

practice_words

Get words to quiz a speller on, picked at random from one of Spelling Bee Hive's free practice sets at the chosen difficulty: levels 1-3 are School, 4-6 Advanced and 7-9 Champion, where 1 is the easiest and 9 is national-final difficulty. Each word comes with what a bee's pronouncer can give - pronunciation, part of speech, definition, language of origin and an example sentence - and a recording. Run it like a bee: say the word, give those clues when asked, and only reveal the spelling after the speller has answered.

trending

trending_words

Words people have recently been searching for how to spell, say or define, grouped by topic, each with a short spelling tip and a link to its page.

winning

winning_words

Winning words of past spelling bees, newest first: the national championship back to 1925 and national and regional bees around the world, each with a link to the word's page. Filter by part of a competition's name (for example "Scripps" or "Ghana") or by year. With no filter it returns the most recent national championship winners.

words

words_of_the_year

Each major English dictionary's Word of the Year for a year, with how to say it, what it means and a spelling tip. A pick that has not been announced yet says when it is expected.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.spellingbeehive.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	628 ms	13 min ago

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Spelling Bee Hive — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Spelling Bee Hive do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: look_up_word, practice_words, trending_words, winning_words, words_of_the_year. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Spelling Bee Hive working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 567 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Spelling Bee Hive?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Spelling Bee Hive need an API key?

No. Spelling Bee Hive completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Spelling Bee Hive?

It answers our handshake in 567 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.