speller

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I know I'm not a great speller, which is why I put everything through a spell checker.

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  1. noun One who spells words: students who are good spellers.
  2. noun An elementary textbook containing exercises that teach spelling.

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  • She was an atrocious speller, and her sentence structure was, at times, bizarre, as if she was translating from another language. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
  • I'm not that strong a speller, and so I don't for a moment undervalue the idea of a guide, any guide, that should take as its ambition the deepening of a reader's knowledge of a subject however narrow. —  Harper's Magazine
  • This speller is widely used in American schools and is peppered throughout with Bible verses. —  Latest Articles
  • The top speller will be awarded a grand prize of $15,000, to be used for post-secondary education. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • To be a great speller -- or, more importantly, a great doctor or IT manager -- you have to be smart.
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from late Middle English spellare (= Middle Dutch, Dutch speller), a speller; from spell + -er.
  2. from spell + -er.
 

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/ˈspɛlər/
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