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finger spelling

finger spelling is the alternative form of fingerspelling.

Meaning of fingerspelling

Noun

fingerspelling (countable and uncountable, plural fingerspellings)

  1. The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
  2. Any system for representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands; a manual alphabet that is a representation of a written alphabet.
  3. A representation of the spelling of a word using such a system.

Forms of finger spelling

pluralfinger spellings

Questions about finger spelling

What is finger spelling the alternative form of?
Finger spelling is the alternative form of fingerspelling.

Words near finger spelling in the dictionary

  1. finger shell
  2. finger shells
  3. finger shield
  4. finger shields
  5. finger speech
  6. finger spelling
  7. finger spellings
  8. finger spin
  9. finger spinner
  10. finger spinners
  11. finger splint

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: finger spelling (page history and authors); fingerspelling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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