"spellingwise" meaning in English

See spellingwise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Etymology: From spelling + -wise. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|spelling|wise}} spelling + -wise Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} spellingwise (not comparable)
  1. In terms of spelling. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-spellingwise-en-adv-6dYXlFQt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -wise

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  "etymology_text": "From spelling + -wise.",
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          "ref": "1896 October 6, B. Onuf, “A Contribution to the Study of Motor Aphasia”, in George F[rederick] Shrady, editor, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 50, New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, published 24 October 1896, page 607",
          "text": "Although to a certain degree he had read the language “spellingwise,” he still recognized many words by familiar combinations of letters and by the sense.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities",
          "text": "Two things have helped to produce that monstrosity of the schoolroom—the word-pronouncer; the first is the lack of mastery of the word so that the child is forced to read spelling[-]wise.",
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          "ref": "1900, Psychological Monographs, page 47",
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          "ref": "1946, B. Marian Brooks, Harry Alvin Brown, Music Education in the Elementary School, page 55",
          "text": "Reading notes spellingwise is fatal to expressing feeling through song or instrument. It is like deciphering in reading or transverbalizing in translating a foreign language.",
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