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Spelling Bee Hive

by spellingbeehive.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v1.0.0 · published by com.spellingbeehive

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

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5 tools: 4 change things and 1 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

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

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

5 tools

Changes things 4Claude Code: ask
  • look_up_wordLook 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, def…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    • The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • title: Look up a word
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
  • winning_wordsWinning 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.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    • The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • title: Spelling bee winning words
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
  • words_of_the_yearEach major English dictionary's Word of the Year for a year, with how to say it, what it means and a spelling tip.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    • The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • title: Dictionary Words of the Year
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
Only reads 1Claude Code: allow
  • practice_wordsGet 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, …No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The description's first verb is "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • title: Get spelling bee practice words
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.0.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

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

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__spelling-bee__practice_words"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__spelling-bee__trending_words",
      "mcp__spelling-bee__winning_words",
      "mcp__spelling-bee__look_up_word",
      "mcp__spelling-bee__words_of_the_year"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as spelling-bee. Review it before you use it.