"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
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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:",
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          "ref": "1897, Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities:",
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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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