spell
verb/spel/
/spel/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they spell | /spel/ /spel/ |
| he / she / it spells | /spelz/ /spelz/ |
| past simple spelt | /spelt/ /spelt/ |
| past participle spelt | /spelt/ /spelt/ |
| past simple spelled | /speld/ /speld/ |
| past participle spelled | /speld/ /speld/ |
| -ing form spelling | /ˈspelɪŋ/ /ˈspelɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] spell something to say or write the letters of a word in the correct order
- How do you spell your surname?
- You've spelt my name wrong.
- spell something with something I thought her name was Catherine, but it's Kathryn spelt with a ‘K’.
- Should 'internet' be spelled with a capital or lower case i?
Extra Examples- ‘Nevaeh’ is ‘heaven’ spelled backwards/backward.
- Is ‘necessary’ spelled with one ‘s’, or two?
- The article spelled ‘survey’ as ‘servay’.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- right
- wrongly
- …
- as
- with
- clearly
- explicitly
- fully
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- to
- [intransitive] to form words correctly from individual letters
- I've never been able to spell.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- right
- wrongly
- …
- as
- with
- clearly
- explicitly
- fully
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- to
- [transitive] spell something (of letters of a word) to form words when they are put together in a particular order
- C—A—T spells ‘cat’.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- right
- wrongly
- …
- as
- with
- clearly
- explicitly
- fully
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- to
- [transitive] spell something (for somebody/something) to have something, usually something bad, as a result; to mean something, usually something bad
- The crop failure spelt disaster for many farmers.
- This defeat spelt the end of his hopes of winning the title again.
- [transitive] spell somebody (North American English, informal) to replace for a short time somebody who is doing a particular activity so that they can rest
- Carter will be here in an hour to spell you.
Word Originverb Middle English: shortening of Old French espeller, from the Germanic base of spell (noun senses 3 and 4).
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