"spelling" meaning in English

See spelling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈspelɪŋ/ [Canada, UK] Audio: en-us-spelling.ogg [US] Forms: spelling [singular], spellings [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. The way letters are used to write a word; the way a word is spelled.
    Sense id: simple-spelling-en-noun-H9JDMK96

Verb

IPA: /ˈspelɪŋ/ [Canada, UK] Audio: en-us-spelling.ogg [US] Forms: spell [canonical], spells [third-person, singular], spelled [past], spelled [past, participle], spelling [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb|spell}} [POS TABLE]
  1. The present participle of spell.
    Sense id: simple-spelling-en-verb-OOvmttIB
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spelling",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spellings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This page has too many spelling mistakes."
        },
        {
          "text": "What's the spelling of her last name?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The way letters are used to write a word; the way a word is spelled."
      ],
      "id": "simple-spelling-en-noun-H9JDMK96"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspelɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spelling.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spelling"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spell",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spells",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelled",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelling",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spell"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The present participle of spell."
      ],
      "id": "simple-spelling-en-verb-OOvmttIB"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspelɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spelling.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spelling"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spelling",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spellings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This page has too many spelling mistakes."
        },
        {
          "text": "What's the spelling of her last name?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The way letters are used to write a word; the way a word is spelled."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspelɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spelling.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spelling"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spell",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spells",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelled",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelling",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spell"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Present participles"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The present participle of spell."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspelɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-spelling.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spelling"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spelling meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-05 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (8c1bb29 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.