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speller

/ˈspɛ.lə(ɹ)/

speller noun: a person who spells.

Noun

speller (plural spellers)

  1. A person who spells.
    • I'm a slow reader but a good speller.
    • Without insisting on a difference between the inventors and the spellers of words, Socrates makes short work of this case.2005, Michael W. Riley, Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure, page 124
  2. A participant in a spelling bee.
  3. (US) A book used to learn how to spell properly.
  4. A spell checker.
    • 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.1987, PC Mag, volume 6, number 17, page 358

Proper noun capitalized: Speller

Speller (plural Spellers)

  1. A surname.

speller meaning in Tamil

speller in Tamil

எழுத்துக்கூட்டி உச்சரிப்பவர்

Forms of speller

Noun
pluralspellers
Proper noun
pluralSpellers

Origin of speller

From spell + -er.

Words formed from speller

Words that rhyme with speller

31 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about speller

What does speller mean?
Speller means a person who spells.
What is speller in Tamil?
Speller in Tamil is எழுத்துக்கூட்டி உச்சரிப்பவர். See Speller meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is speller?
Speller can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce speller?
Speller is pronounced /ˈspɛ.lə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of speller?
The plural of speller is spellers.

Words near speller in the dictionary

  1. spelled one's name
  2. spelled out
  3. spelled sideways
  4. spelled someone's name
  5. spelled things out
  6. speller
  7. spellers
  8. spellfire
  9. spellful
  10. spellican
  11. spellicans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speller (page history and authors); Speller (page history and authors); speller (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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