speller

See also: Speller

English

Etymology

From spell + -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)

Noun

speller (plural spellers)

1. A person who spells.

   I'm a slow reader but a good speller.

   • 2005, Michael W. Riley, Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure, page 124:

     Without insisting on a difference between the inventors and the spellers of words, Socrates makes short work of this case.

2. A participant in a spelling bee.
3. (US) A book used to learn how to spell properly.
4. (computing) A spell checker.
   • 1987, PC Mag, volume 6, number 17, page 358:

     But Word's spelling program still isn't fully integrated into the word processor. For one thing, any changes and corrections you make from the speller's menus don't appear on-screen until you get back to your original file.

Derived terms

• fingerspeller

Related terms

• misspell
• misspelling
• pronunciation respelling
• pronunciation spelling
• respell
• respelling
• spell
• spellable
• spell-check
• spell check
• spelling
• spelling bee
• spelling book
• spelling pronunciation

Translations

person who spells

• French: épeleur (fr) m, épeleuse (fr) f
• German: Buchstabierer m, Buchstabiererin f
• Spanish: deletreador (es) m, deletreadora (es) f

participant in a spelling bee

book used to learn to spell properly

• German: Fibel (de) f

spell checker

• Finnish: oikoluku (fi), oikolukuohjelma (fi)
• French: correcteur orthographique (fr) m, vérificateur d’orthographe (fr) m, vérificateur orthographique (fr) m
• German: Rechtschreibprüfung f, Rechtschreibkorrekturprogramm n, Rechtschreibprogramm n, Korrekturprogramm n
• Spanish: corrector ortográfico m

Anagrams

• Pellers, Serpell, presell, respell