spelling

IPA: spˈɛɫɪŋ

(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
(uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
(countable) A specific spelling of a word.
(US, rare, dated, countable or uncountable) A spelling test or spelling bee.
(music) A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.

Examples of "spelling" in Sentences

CM: Of course, my name spelling is even different from my grandfather's name spelling.
There's a john smendrovac in the US, and on his blog, his spelling is almost as bad as above.
[_anomalous spelling unchanged in both] -- To my own hindrence did I try. [_spelling unchanged_]
Hey Butch, if Dutch goes back to school, make sure he enrolls in English 101; his spelling is a little rusty ...
If your spelling is any indication of you education, you should go back to school while you still have time in life.
And by the way, the themes of the posters are selected by the crews, and name spelling is verified by each crew member before it is printed.
Another large chunk appear fine until I start to read them: the spelling is abysmal, the punctuation non-existent, and the syntax is convoluted.
“Henry the Fift” [_this spelling is used consistently_] except the “Faery Queen,” [_spelling unchanged_] next to the Miter and Phænix [_error for “Phœnix” in original_] [Stz. 3 sidenote] ...
Of course, in a sense, we all start from scratch in childhood, and children who start with a language like Spanish, where the spelling is almost perfectly phonetic, pick up reading much, much sooner than children who have to learn all the crazy rules and exceptions of English spelling.