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Spelling
//ˈspɛlɪŋ//
Synonyms for "spelling" (2 found)
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8 entriesTranslations
168 translations across 50 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- تَهْجِئَة noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- عِلْم اَلْإِمْلَاء noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- عِلْم اَلْإِمْلَاء noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- هِجَاء noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Assamese
1 entries- বানান noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Asturian
1 entries- ortografía noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- imla noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- orfoqrafiya noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- yazı qaydaları noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- yazılış noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Belarusian
4 entries- арфагра́фія noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- напіса́нне noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- пра́вапіс noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- пра́вапіс noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ортогра́фия noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- правопи́с noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- правопи́с noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- правопис noun (the act of forming words with letters, the act of spelling)
Catalan
1 entries- ortografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Cebuano
4 entries- espeling noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- espeling noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- espeling noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- panitik noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 寫法 /写法 noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- 拼字 noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- 拼字 noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- 拼寫 /拼写 noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Czech
3 entries- hláskování noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- pravopis noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- pravopis noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Danish
1 entries- stavemåde noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Dutch
3 entries- schrijfwijze noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- spelling noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- spelling noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Finnish
4 entries- kirjoitusasu noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- oikeinkirjoitus noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- oikeinkirjoitus noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- ortografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
French
3 entries- graphie noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- orthographe noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- orthographe noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Galician
1 entries- ortografía noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
German
4 entries- Buchstabieren noun (the act of forming words with letters, the act of spelling)
- Orthografie noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- Orthografie noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- Rechtschreibung noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- òtograf noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Hebrew
2 entries- אִיּוּת noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- כְּתִיב noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Hindi
1 entries- वर्तनी noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Hungarian
4 entries- betűzés noun (the act of forming words with letters, the act of spelling)
- helyesírás noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- helyesírás noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- írásmód noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Ingrian
1 entries- orfografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Irish
3 entries- litriú noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- litriú noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- litriú noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Italian
4 entries- compitazione noun (the act of forming words with letters, the act of spelling)
- compitazione noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- compitazione noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- compitazione noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Japanese
4 entries- スペリング noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- スペル noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- スペル noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- 文字綴り noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Korean
4 entries- 맞춤법 noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- 스펠 noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- 스펠링 noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- 철자법 noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Low German
1 entries- Schrievwies noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Macedonian
1 entries- пра́вопис noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Malay
3 entries- ejaan noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- ejaan noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- ortografi noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Māori
4 entries- tātaki kupu noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- tātaki kupu noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- tātakinga noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- tātakinga noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
Nepali
1 entries- हिज्जे noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stavemåte noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stavemåte noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
Occitan
1 entries- ortografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Polish
3 entries- ortografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- pisownia noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- pisownia noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Portuguese
4 entries- grafia noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- ortografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- ortografia noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- ortografia noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Russian
4 entries- написа́ние noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- орфогра́фия noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- орфогра́фия noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- правописа́ние noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Scots
4 entries- spaein noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- spellin noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- spellin noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- spellin noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- litreachadh noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- litreachadh noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- litreachadh noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- pravopis noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- pravopis noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- правопис noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Slovak
1 entries- pravopis noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Slovene
1 entries- pravopís noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Spanish
4 entries- deletreo noun (the act of forming words with letters, the act of spelling)
- espeleo noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- espeleo noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- espeleo noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Swahili
4 entries- imla noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- imla noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- imla noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- otografia noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Swedish
4 entries- ortografi noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- rättstavning noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- stavning noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- stavning noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Tagalog
4 entries- ispeling noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- ispeling noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- ispeling noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- pagbabaybay noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
Telugu
2 entries- వర్ణక్రమం noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- వర్ణక్రమం noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Turkish
3 entries- imla noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- yazılış noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- yazım noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
Ukrainian
4 entries- написа́ння noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- орфогра́фія noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- право́пис noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- право́пис noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Walloon
4 entries- ortografeye noun (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography)
- scrijha noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
- scrijha noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- scrijhaedje noun (manner of spelling of words; correct spelling)
Yiddish
2 entries- אָרטאָגראַפֿיע noun (a specific spelling of a word)
- אויסלייג noun (a specific spelling of a word)
Sample sentences
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There are several spelling errors in your essay.
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