- 1 [uncountable] the act of forming words correctly from individual letters; the ability to do this a spelling mistake the differences between British and American spelling My spelling is terrible. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivecorrect, incorrect, conventional, … verb + spellinguse, check, correct, … spelling + nounerror, mistake, bee, … prepositionin … spelling, spelling for, spelling of, … phrasesbe good, bad, etc. at spelling See full entry See related entries: Grammar
- 2 [countable] the way that a particular word is written a list of difficult spellings In American spelling ‘travelled’ only has one ‘l’. The document uses the British spelling for caesium. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivecorrect, incorrect, conventional, … verb + spellinguse, check, correct, … spelling + nounerror, mistake, bee, … prepositionin … spelling, spelling for, spelling of, … phrasesbe good, bad, etc. at spelling See full entry See related entries: Grammar Wordfinderwordconnotation, definition, dictionary, homonym, meaning, pronunciation, spelling, synonym, vocabulary, word
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