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Forming words with letters
Answer for the clue "Forming words with letters ", 8 letters:
spelling
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "action of reading letter by letter," verbal noun from spell (v.1). Meaning "manner of forming words with letters" is from 1660s; meaning "a way a word has been spelled" is from 1731. Spelling bee is from 1878 (see bee ; earlier spelling match ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spelling \Spell"ing\, n. The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography. 2 (context uncountable English) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling. 3 (context countable ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spelling is the writing of words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted, conventional order. Spelling or Spellings is the name of: Aaron Spelling (1923–2006), American film and television producer Candy Spelling (born 1945), author, ...
Usage examples of spelling.
Can anyone give me a group of four homonyms, four words all pronounced alike, with spelling and meaning different in each case?
Ransaran was riddled with irregular verb forms, homonyms, synonyms, irregular spellings, nonstandard pronunciations, and appropriations from every other major language.
It had virtually no irregular verbs and very few homonyms, and a completely consistent phonetic spelling.
It is still necessary to use hyphens when spelling outnumbers, such as thirty-two, forty-nine.
CHAPTER 6 Carlyle House has been the property of the Dukes of Cumberland since it was built, although it is frequently and erroneously supposed that it is a part of the heritage of the Marquisate of Carlisle by those who do not recognize that the names are similar in pronunciation but not in spelling.
He was pecking away at an overdue report, looking up the spelling of a word, when suddenly he ripped the page from his dictionary and threw the book against the wall.
I see the joke yet in spelling patroon with an o for the a and an ell for good measure!
I did not even know if Miss Semon is the correct spelling, or if Miss Semone is the correct spelling.
THE first time I was in Egypt a Simplified Spelling epidemic had broken out and the atmosphere was electrica with feeling engendered by the subject.
There is a memorandum of a pamphlet on simplified spelling which I cannot identify or trace.
His paper was a much-crumpled piece that he had found that morning in the wastebasket, and as yet his writing and spelling were poor enough, but he knew what he wanted to express, and this is what he wrote: DEAR BISHOP: I hav ben mene and bad i am not def and dum but i acted like i was caus I thot you wood not kepe me if yu knu I am sory now so i am going away but i am going to kepe strate and not bee bad any more ever.
What dreadful work Spelling made among those slight reputations, floating in swollen tenuity on the surface of the stream, and mirroring each other in reciprocal reflections!
Transliterate them into Roman alphabet spellings and Arabic numerals, and somewhere, somebody would spot each numerical significance, as Hubert Penrose and Mort Tranter and she had done with the table of elements.
The lines and circles of the hieroglyphs spelling unfound grew clearer.
Mona Woolner wrote a syndicated newspaper column on English usage in which she found fault with the grammar, spelling, and punctuation of everybody from the Bard of Avon to the Royal family of Great Britain.