buchstabieren — meaning in English

English meaning

• spell noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
• spelling noun The act or skill of putting letters in the correct order to form words.

Senses

buchstabieren is used for these senses in English:

• spell (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. [from 16th c.]
• spell (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word). [from 19th c.]
• spelling (uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.

spell — full definition

1. noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
2. verb To write or say the letters that make up a word, in the correct order.
3. verb To indicate or signal that something is likely to happen.
4. noun A short period of time doing a particular activity, or a stretch of a certain kind of weather.

spelling — full definition

1. noun The act or skill of putting letters in the correct order to form words.
2. noun A particular way of writing a word.

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