spelling (root: spell)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: spell=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

spelling, n. 

 The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.  [1913 Webster]

spelling, a. 

 Of or pertaining to spelling.  [1913 Webster]

Spelling bee, a spelling match. [U.S.] -- Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spelling, n.
1 the process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a word etc.
2 the way a word is spelled.
3 the ability to spell (his spelling is weak).

Idiom

spelling-bee a spelling competition.

ROGET THESAURUS

spelling

Letter

N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.