Meanings
speller1
plural spellers
- A person who spells.
I'm a slow reader but a good speller.
1 more example
Without insisting on a difference between the inventors and the spellers of words, Socrates makes short work of this case.
2005, Michael W. Riley, Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure, page 124 - A participant in a spelling bee.
- computingA spell checker.
But Word's spelling program still isn't fully integrated into the word processor. For one thing, any changes and corrections you make from the speller's menus don't appear on-screen until you get back to your original file.
1987, PC Mag, volume 6, number 17, page 358
Speller2
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish oikoluku, oikolukuohjelma
- oikolukuspell checker
- oikolukuohjelmaspell checker
French épeleur, épeleuse
- épeleurperson who spells
- épeleuseperson who spells
- correcteur orthographiquespell checker
- vérificateur d’orthographespell checker
- vérificateur orthographiquespell checker
German Buchstabierer, Buchstabiererin
- Buchstabiererperson who spells
- Buchstabiererinperson who spells
- Fibelbook used to learn to spell properly
- Rechtschreibprüfungspell checker
- Rechtschreibkorrekturprogrammspell checker
- Rechtschreibprogrammspell checker
- Korrekturprogrammspell checker
Spanish deletreador, deletreadora
- deletreadorperson who spells
- deletreadoraperson who spells
- corrector ortográficospell checker
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with speller
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Cite this entry
speller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/speller
“speller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/speller. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “speller,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/speller.
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