spelling

The word “spelling” means the act or skill of putting letters in the correct order to form words. In plain terms, how a word is written out, letter by letter.

“Spelling” is pronounced SPEH-lihng (/ˈspɛlɪŋ/ in IPA).

Here is “spelling” used in a sentence: “English spelling can be tricky because of all its irregular words.”

“Spelling” is a noun.

The word “spelling” dates back to around 1400. From the verb "spell" plus "-ing," first recorded around the 1400s.

“Spelling” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

“Spelling” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: the act or skill of putting letters in the correct order to form words.

Spelling is the everyday word for putting letters in the correct order to form words, while orthography is the technical term for a language's whole system of writing conventions, including spelling, capitalisation, and punctuation. Linguists discuss English orthography; teachers and learners talk about spelling.

Yes. A spelling is simply a particular way of writing a word, and many words have accepted variants, such as grey and gray or organise and organize. Dictionaries usually list one form as the main entry and label the others as variant spellings.

Both, depending on the sense. As the skill of writing words correctly it is uncountable, as in "her spelling is excellent," but as a particular way of writing a word it is countable, as in "there are two spellings of this word."

Many words are spelled differently in the two varieties: British English typically uses colour, centre, organise, and travelling, where American English uses color, center, organize, and traveling. Both are correct spellings within their own variety, so the key is to choose one style and apply it consistently.