spellings
- 1Plural of spelling.
British and American English use different spellings for many everyday words.
The old manuscript preserved several archaic spellings of the same surname.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of spelling can take. The countable ones pluralize freely: the different written forms of a word (two spellings of one surname), a musician's choices of notation for the same pitch, and, in dated US use, spelling tests. Spelling as a skill stays uncountable: someone is good at spelling, not at spellings. The verb form spelling, from spell, never takes a plural.
spellings is a form of spelling
spelling, noun: The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words from their letters, or of reading words letter by letter; orthography. Full entry
- Forms
- spellingspellings plural
- Spelling
- spelling → spellings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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