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orthographying

orthographying is the present participle and gerund of orthography.

Meaning of orthography

Verb

orthography (third-person singular simple present orthographies, present participle orthographying, simple past and past participle orthographied)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To spell (words) or write (text) according to established usage.
    • [T]here have appeared three collections of ſongs and poems, all of vvhich, though there be merit in the compoſition, are, hovvever, vvretchedly orthographied.1778, William Shaw, “Introduction”, in An Analysis of the Galic Language, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: […] W[alter] and T[homas] Ruddiman; for R. Jamieson, […], →OCLC, page x

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Questions about orthographying

What is orthographying the present participle and gerund of?
Orthographying is the present participle and gerund of orthography.

Words near orthographying in the dictionary

  1. orthographized
  2. orthographizes
  3. orthographizing
  4. orthographs
  5. orthography
  6. orthographying
  7. orthograptid
  8. orthogravitropism
  9. orthogrid
  10. orthogrids
  11. orthogroup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orthographying (page history and authors); orthography (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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