SPELLING

[noun]He's hopeless at spelling (= forming words with the letters in the correct order). [U]I think that children should be taught spelling (= how to form words correctly) and punctuation. [U]My computer has a program which corrects my spelling (= the way I form words). [U]Your essay is full of spelling mistakes/errors. [U]This dictionary includes both British and American spellings of (= correct ordering of letters in) words. [C](US and ANZ) A spelling bee is a competition in which the winner is the person or group who is able to form correctly the highest number of the words they are asked to form.