Wondering how to use Spelling in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as orthography.
Spelling in a sentence
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Spelling meaning
present participle and gerund of spell
Synonyms of Spelling
Using Spelling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of spell
- Useful related words include: orthography, writing system.
- In the example corpus, spelling often appears in combinations such as: the spelling, spelling of, spelling bee.
Context around Spelling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spelling
- In this selection, "spelling" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, english, canadian, correctly, bee, used and metallurgy stand out and add context to how "spelling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1947 the spelling was changed and a spelling error on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spelling" sits close to words such as convictions, directive and dumped, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spelling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Much of English spelling differs from American spelling. (8 words)
Canadian spelling in comparison with American and British spelling. (9 words)
A spelling error on the sheet music to the published song included the spelling of his name as 'I. (19 words)
In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling. (40 words)
In Great Britain and Ireland, the correct spelling of the aristocratic title of this rank is marquess (although for aristocratic titles on the European mainland, the French spelling of marquis is often used in English). (35 words)
Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The spelling bee went 12 rounds with 5th grader, Neju Rashid, correctly spelling “metallurgy” to earn the title of Spelling Bee Champion.
Augmenting spelling with pronunciation information Unlike spelling reforms, we can actually keep a word's original spelling intact but add pronunciation information to it, e.g. using diacritics.
In 1947, the spelling was changed into Republican Spelling or Soewandi Spelling (named by at the time Minister of Education, Soewandi).
In terms of spelling, Coleridge's printed version differs from Purchas's spelling, which refers to the Tartar ruler as "Cublai Can", and from the spelling used by Milton, "Cathaian Can".
This cz spelling is used only in the Polish language ; although the spelling varies, most Slavonic languages use the ts pronunciation, and usually that spelling in the Romanised form.
Much of English spelling differs from American spelling.
The fourth annual Saskatchewan First Nations Spelling Bee had 114 spellers from ages 6 to 12 competing for three seats at the National Spelling Bee in Toronto in May.
A contemporary reference for formal Canadian spelling is the spelling used for Hansard transcripts of the Parliament of Canada hatnote.
A spelling error on the sheet music to the published song included the spelling of his name as 'I.
Aufwand (effort) has the verb aufwenden (to spend, to dedicate) and the adjective aufwendig (requiring effort) though the 1996 spelling reform now permits the alternative spelling aufwändig (but not * aufwänden).
Canadian spelling in comparison with American and British spelling.
Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.
Eye rhyme main Eye rhymes or sight rhymes or spelling rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound where the final sounds are spelled identically but pronounced differently.
In 1798, he changed the spelling of his surname to "Wellesley"; up to this time he was still known as Wesley, which his eldest brother considered the ancient and proper spelling.
In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.
In Great Britain and Ireland, the correct spelling of the aristocratic title of this rank is marquess (although for aristocratic titles on the European mainland, the French spelling of marquis is often used in English).
Instead of loans being respelled to conform to English spelling standards, sometimes the pronunciation changes as a result of pressure from the spelling.
It also recreated the problem of dialect dependent spelling, which the standardisation of spelling had been created to eliminate.
It is however recognised and maintained in the spelling of some old names, reflecting an earlier German spelling standard, and in some modern loan words.
Just as it took many centuries for English spelling to become standardized, spelling in SignWriting is not yet standardized for any sign language.
Common combinations with spelling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the spelling 45×
- spelling of 33×
- spelling bee 30×
- spelling out 19×
- spelling is 12×
- spelling and 12×
- and spelling 12×
- national spelling 8×
- spelling in 7×
- english spelling 7×