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fingerspellings

fingerspellings is the plural 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.

Questions about fingerspellings

What is fingerspellings the plural of?
Fingerspellings is the plural of fingerspelling.

Words near fingerspellings in the dictionary

  1. fingerspell
  2. fingerspelled
  3. fingerspeller
  4. fingerspellers
  5. fingerspelling
  6. fingerspellings
  7. fingerspells
  8. fingerspelt
  9. fingerspin
  10. fingerstall
  11. fingerstalls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fingerspellings (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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