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# speller

«speller» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who spells words, described as good or bad at…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a speller, spellers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A speller is a person who spells words, described as good or bad at it: she's a good speller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#m1)

2) (US, Canada) A speller is also a school book of spelling lists and exercises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#m2)

3) A spell-checker on a computer is sometimes called a speller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school life, spelling tests and spelling bees show who is a strong speller; contestants in a spelling bee are called spellers. In US schools pupils may have a speller workbook. Being a poor speller has nothing to do with being clever — many smart people find spelling hard, including some with dyslexia.

### examples

- My sister is a brilliant speller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x1)
- I'm a terrible speller, so I check my work carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x2)
- Fifty spellers took part in the spelling bee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x3)
- Open your spellers to page 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x4)
- The best speller in the class won a dictionary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x5)
- The speller on my laptop missed my mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x6)
- Good spellers read a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/#x7)

### note

Countable: spellers. "Speller" is the person; "spelling" is the activity. Being a weak speller is not the same as being unintelligent.

### In the corpora

- [The best news for spellers: a prefix never changes the spelling of the root word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «speller» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.