orthography

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ortografie, Middle French orthographie, and their source, Latin orthographia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὀρθογραφία ‎(orthographía), from ὀρθός ‎(orthós, “correct”) and γράφω ‎(gráphō, “write”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈθɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
• (US) enPR: ôrthäʹgrəfē, IPA^(key): /ɔɹˈθɑɡ.ɹə.fi/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: or‧thog‧ra‧phy

Noun

orthography ‎(plural orthographies)

1. The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
3. Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
4. (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:orthography.

Derived terms

Derived terms

orthographer orthographic orthographical

orthographically orthographist

Synonyms

• spelling

Translations

study of correct spelling

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْإِمْلَاء m ‎(ʿilm al-ʾimlāʾ), هِجَاء m ‎(hijāʾ), تَهْجِئَة f ‎(tahjiʾa)
• Armenian: ուղղագրություն (hy) ‎(ułłagrutʿyun)
• Belarusian: правапі́с m ‎(pravapís), арфагра́фія f ‎(arfahráfija)
• Bulgarian: правопи́с (bg) m ‎(pravopís), ортогра́фия (bg) f ‎(ortográfija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正字法 (zh) ‎(zhèngzìfǎ), 拼字 (zh) ‎(pīnzì), 拼寫法 (zh), 拼写法 (zh) ‎(pīnxiěfǎ), 正詞法, 正词法 ‎(zhèngcífǎ), 拼寫 (zh), 拼写 (zh) ‎(pīnxiě), 寫法 (zh), 写法 (zh) ‎(xiěfǎ)

• Czech: pravopis m
• Dutch: spelling (nl) f
• Faroese: rættskriving f
• Finnish: ortografia (fi), oikeinkirjoitusoppi
• French: orthographe (fr) f
• Georgian: მართლწერა ‎(martlc̣era), ორთოგრაფია (ka) ‎(ortograpia)
• German: Orthografie (de) f, Rechtschreibung (de) f
• Greek: ορθογραφία (el) f ‎(orthografía)
• Icelandic: réttritun (is) f
• Indonesian: ortografi (id)
• Irish: ortagrafaíocht f
• Japanese: 正字法 ‎(せいじほう, seijihō), 綴り ‎(つづり, tsuzuri), 文字綴り ‎(moji-tsuzuri), 正書法 (ja) ‎(せいしよほう, seishohō), オーソグラフィー ‎(ōsogurafī), スペリング ‎(superingu), スペル ‎(superu), 綴り字 ‎(つづりじ, tsudzuriji)

• Kurdish: imla (ku), vekît (ku)
• Latvian: ortogrāfija f, pareizrakstība f
• Lithuanian: ortografija f
• Macedonian: правопис m ‎(pravopis), ортографија f ‎(ortografija)
• Malay: ejaan, ortografi
• Polish: ortografia (pl) f, pisownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ortografia (pt) f
• Romanian: ortografie (ro) f
• Russian: орфогра́фия (ru) f ‎(orfográfija), правописа́ние (ru) n ‎(pravopisánije), спе́ллинг m ‎(spɛ́lling) (of English)
• Scottish Gaelic: litreachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̏вопӣс m, ортогра̀фија f

  Roman: prȁvopīs (sh) m, ortogràfija (sh) f

• Slovak: pravopis m
• Slovene: pravopís (sl)
• Spanish: ortografía (es) f
• Swedish: rättstavning (sv) c, ortografi (sv) c
• Tagalog: palabaybayan
• Ukrainian: право́пис (uk) m ‎(pravópys), орфогра́фія (uk) f ‎(orfohráfija)
• Uyghur: ئىملا ‎(imla)
• Yiddish: אָרטאָגראַפֿיע f ‎(ortografye)

aspect of language study

• Armenian: ուղղագրություն (hy) ‎(ułłagrutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: spelling (nl) f
• Finnish: ortografia (fi), oikeinkirjoitusoppi
• French: orthographe (fr) f
• Greek: ορθογραφία (el) f ‎(orthografía)
• Irish: ortagrafaíocht f
• Latvian: ortogrāfija f, pareizrakstība f
• Macedonian: правопис m ‎(pravopis), ортографија f ‎(ortografija)
• Polish: ortografia (pl) f

• Portuguese: ortografia (pt) f
• Russian: орфогра́фия (ru) f ‎(orfográfija), правописа́ние (ru) n ‎(pravopisánije), спе́ллинг m ‎(spɛ́lling) (of English)
• Scottish Gaelic: litreachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̏вопӣ m, ортогра̀фија f

  Roman: prȁvopīs (sh) m, ortogràfija (sh) f

• Spanish: ortografía (es) f
• Swedish: ortografi (sv) c

method of representing a language by written symbols

• Albanian: drejtshkrim (sq) m
• Armenian: ուղղագրություն (hy) ‎(ułłagrutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: spelling (nl) f
• Finnish: oikeinkirjoitus (fi), oikeinkirjoitusjärjestelmä
• French: orthographe (fr) f
• Irish: ortagrafaíocht f
• Latvian: ortogrāfija

• Macedonian: правопис m ‎(právopis), ортографија f ‎(ortográfija)
• Polish: ortografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ortografia (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: litreachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̏вопӣ m, ортогра̀фија f

  Roman: prȁvopīs (sh) m, ortogràfija (sh) f

• Spanish: ortografía (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Danish: ^{(please verify)} ortografi c
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ortografio

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} orthographia