orthography

IPA: ɔrθˈɑgrʌfi

(linguistics)
(countable) A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
(countable, more broadly) A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
(uncountable) The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
(uncountable) Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.
(countable, architecture) A form of projection used to represent three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, in which all the projection lines are orthogonal or perpendicular to the projection plane; an orthographic projection, especially when used to draw an elevation, vertical projection, etc., of a building; also (obsolete) a drawing made in this way.
(countable, obsolete) Synonym of orthographer (“someone knowledgeable in spelling rules”)

(transitive, rare, archaic) To spell (words) or write (text) according to established usage.

Examples of "orthography" in Sentences

Here is Lewis's letter (corrected in orthography).
Surely, even basic orthography is within your grasp? billy
Is there some subtle complication in Hawaiian orthography or dialectology that I'm missing?
And English orthography is hardly beholden to pronunciation (tho it mite be nice if it were).
The Slavonic combination of consonants sl was changed in Greek orthography into stl, sthl, or skl.
Oh, and just to mess up the Google counts, in Arabic orthography those forms are all indistinguishable from verbal nouns in the accusative...
[9] Condé, and the writers who have followed him, constantly speak of the Beni-Modhar as Egyptian -- an error owing to the neglect or omission of the point which in Arabic orthography distinguishes _Modhar_ from _Missr_, (Egypt.)
Master of Arts. According to the easy orthography of that time (if the word orthography may be applied to a practice by virtue of which every man spelled as seemed right in his own eyes), Lyly's name is found in at least six forms: Lilye, Lylie, Lilly, Lyllie, Lyly, and Lylly.
Since the vulgar dialects of the people had neither alphabet nor orthography, he chalked the Latin words for "Penance, Solitude, and Silence," on a large flat stone, and wrote them again below in ancient English, hoping, in spite of his unacknowledged yearning for someone to talk to, that the old man would understand and leave him to his lonely Lenten vigil.