Franklin Spelling Ace with Thesaurus

by Franklin Electronics

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 3 inches ; 3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002I1JL4
• Item model number: SA-206S
• Batteries: 4 AAA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #6 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > Thesauri
  • #31 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > English Dictionaries
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 1, 2004

Product Description

Spelling Ace with Thesaurus, 110K owrds, 500k synonyms

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better spelling, May 13, 2007

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Maine Muggle "mainemuggle" (Portland, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Franklin Spelling Ace with Thesaurus (Office Product)

I purchased four of these spellers for my fifth grade classroom, I had two older models of the Franklin spelling ace and thought I would give this new version a whirl.

Good Points:
They are small and fit on the top of a student's desk without interfering with the writing space.
The batteries are behind a cover that screws shut - read: no flying batteries during our writing sessions.
The thesaurus is terrific.

Bad Points:
The cover is hard to open and is another step in getting to the tool.
The Spelling Ace is not intuitive - you must read the directions closely in order to have the speller work properly. Reading directions, remembering directions and following directions are not skills that most adults have mastered let alone fifth graders.
This last bad point is my fault and one that I had not thought about before purchasing...I wish that I had purchased one with audio - my students who use these need that sound/letter correlation in order to remember how to spell the word they are looking up (and recognize the word when they see it).

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars IT'S DECENT, April 25, 2005

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earth1 (Lawrenceville N.J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Franklin Spelling Ace with Thesaurus (Office Product)

This is the first spell checker I've owned. It's a bit on
the large side, and the power button gets stuck alot. I'll
put in a word the way it sounds, and alot of the time it
spells out a different word, but I guess most of them probably
do this. This one does the job, but I'm not overwhelmed with it.
It needs 4AAA batterys to operate, which I think is a bit on
the ridiculous side also!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Adult user, September 19, 2006

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continuous learner (NY) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Franklin Spelling Ace with Thesaurus (Office Product)

This is an excellent tool for a higher-grade student who needs help with spelling because Spelling Ace doesn't offer any extra information that might be used for cheating. It fits inside the adult hand and is light (it isn't going to weigh down a briefcase, purse or knapsack). The lid is not very secure and I snapped it off while taking it out of the shipping container but I was able to snap it back together. The spelling software is decent and is more phonetic than the spell checkers found in traditional PC software. The price is right! The only caveat I have is that wouldn't recommend it for anyone with visional perception issues because the digital lower case letters are difficult to differentiate.