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spell1 /spel/

transitive verb (pat and pap spelled or spelt)
  1. To read laboriously, letter by letter
  2. To name or set down in order the letters of
  3. To constitute or represent orthographically
  4. To make out, come to understand
  5. To scan
  6. To signify, indicate, amount to (figurative)
intransitive verb
  1. To spell words, esp correctly
  2. To contemplate (poetic)
  3. To express or hint a desire
noun

A mode of spelling

ORIGIN: OFr espeller (Fr épeler), of Gmc origin; cf spell2

spellˈable adjective

spellˈer noun

spellˈing noun

spellˈingly adverb

Letter by letter

spellˈcheck or spellˈchecker noun

A program in a word processor that checks the accuracy of the operator's spelling (also adjective)

spellˈ-check transitive verb and intransitive verb

spellˈdown noun (US)

A spelling competition

spelling bee noun

A spelling competition

spelling book noun

A book for teaching how to spell

spelling pronunciation noun (linguistics)

A pronunciation of a word that, as a side-effect of literacy, closely represents its spelling, superseding the traditional pronunciation, eg forehead as /förˈhed/ (orig /forˈid/)

spell backward

  1. To spell in reverse order
  2. Perversely to mispresent or misconstrue the qualities of

spell baker

To do something difficult, probably because baker was one of the first disyllables in old spelling books

spell it out or spell out

To be extremely specific in explaining something

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