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say it: SPEL-ing
spelling is a noun meaning "forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage". It carries one recorded sense.
forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spelling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.