Spelling
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Spelling is the writing of a word or words with the necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted standard order. It is one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of alphabetic languages. Most spellings attempt to approximate a transcribing of the sounds of the language into alphabetic letters; however, completely phonetic spellings are often the exception, due to drifts in pronunciations over time and irregular spellings adopted through common usage.
Misspellings
While some words admit multiple spellings, some spellings are not considered standard, and thus labeled as misspellings. A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear," or "no" when one means "know"). Misspellings of the latter type can easily make their way into printed material because they are not caught by simple computerized spell checkers.
Misspellings may be due to either typing errors (e.g. the transposition error teh for the), or lack of knowledge of the correct spelling. Whether or not a word is misspelled may depend on context, as is the case with American / British English distinctions. Misspelling can also be a matter of opinion when variant spellings are accepted by some and not by others. For example "miniscule" (for "minuscule") is a misspelling to many,
A well-known Internet scam involves the registration of domain names that are deliberate misspellings of well-known corporate names in order to mislead or defraud. The practice is commonly known as "typosquatting".
See also
- Dyslexia
- Eye dialect
- Grapheme
- Official script
- Orthography
- Phonetic spelling
- Pronunciation spelling
- Spell checker
- Spelling bee
- Spelling pronunciation
- Spelling reform
- English spelling
- American and British English spelling differences
- English orthography
- English terms with diacritical marks
- Other languages
- Template:Selfref
- List of languages by writing system
- French orthography
- German orthography
- Greek orthography
- Hangul orthography
- Latin spelling and pronunciation
- Russian orthography
- Spanish orthography
