finger spelling

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   an alphabet of manual signs

   Synonymsfingerspelling

   Broadersign language

Questions about finger spelling

What does finger spelling mean?

finger spelling means "an alphabet of manual signs".

What is another word for finger spelling?

Close synonyms include fingerspelling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is finger spelling a common word?

finger spelling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.