SPELLING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("spelling" is a kind of...):

orthography; writing system (a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols)

Meronyms (parts of "spelling"):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spelling"):

misspelling (a spelling that is incorrect)

Derivation:

spell (orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of)

spell (write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word))

-ing form of the verb spell

I saw at once that I was on the right track; phonetic spelling had again misled me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)