to spell
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- verb
- /spɛl/
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deletrear
- I hope they spell my name right in the papers.
- spell a word
- spell a name
- spell correctly
For those you don't know, I think it's spelled PLASTIQ.
- For those you don't know, I think it's spelled PLASTIQ.
- Oh, that's just my buddy Randall, spelled Randle.
- The winning word, the word that he was able to spell, was echolalia.
- And in the spelling bee, I spelled the word sincerely wrong.
- My last name is also hard to spell and pronounce.
- If if you rearrange the letters of sister, what does it spell Resist?
- I spelled it for those that can't spell that gobble.
Examples
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The next word I would like you to spell is pronunciation.
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During the game, the teacher asked the students to spell the word 'accommodate'.
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Uh, how do you spell that, please?
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And how do we spell that?
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Could you spell your address?
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You want me to spell it out?
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"If you can spell look, hook, and cook, you can definitely spell took," she told her students.
Academic text (2013) -
Mississippi was certainly a hard word for me to spell, but I was willing to try it.
Fiction book (1993) -
My last name is also hard to spell and pronounce.
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How do you spell Picasso, the painter?
Synonyms
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Put letters and words onto a surface using a pen or keyboard
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To say each letter of a word so others can hear the spelling
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Etymology
Spell comes from an old word that meant 'to tell' or 'say', so the verb 'to spell' a word is like 'saying out' its letters one by one to show the correct order.