noun
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the act or process of writing words by using the letters conventionally accepted for their formation; orthography
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the art or study of orthography
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the actual way in which a word is spelt
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the ability of a person to spell
John's spelling is good
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The two sides still have to finalize agreements spelling out the services that will be provided at each venue by July 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
One note: We have changed some capitalization, spelling and punctuation; no need to make this even harder than it is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Children across the United States have participated in spelling bees with the hopes of making it to the national contest since 1925, according to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Sotheby's experts had also spotted multiple spelling mistakes, it was heard.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
I wished I could’ve told Calista about my B’s in spelling.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
The predictive text is supposed to learn your style and improve over time, but depending on the fixes you do or don’t accept, it can learn incorrect spellings in place of correct ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
The so-called invading force of my generation assimilated to the point where our kids are named Brandon and Ashley in all sorts of spellings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
And because Jefferson's original moniker was spelled as Megalonyx, any other subsequent spellings of the name, like some that utilize the -onix suffix, are incorrect.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
"In some of our electronic communications, we've now dropped into phonetic spellings rather than the actual spellings," Mr Chard added.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023
That is why you might see “Muscogee” or “Muskogee,” as well as “Maskoke,” on highway or street signs where Muscogee people live; it’s the same word but with different spellings.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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