spell
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they spell | |
| he / she / it spells | |
| past simple spelt | |
| past participle spelt | |
| past simple spelled | |
| past participle spelled | |
| -ing form spelling |
- [transitive] spell something
to say or write the letters of a word in the correct order 用字母拼；拼写 How do you spell your surname? 你的姓怎么拼？ You've spelt my name wrong. 你把我的名字拼错了。 - spell something with something
I thought her name was Catherine, but it's Kathryn spelt with a ‘K’. 我原以为她叫 Catherine，其实是 Kathryn，以 K 开头。 Should 'internet' be spelled with a capital or lower case i? “internet”应该用大写字母还是小写字母I拼写？
Extra Examples‘Nevaeh’ is ‘heaven’ spelled backwards/backward. heaven 倒着拼便是 nevaeh。 Is ‘necessary’ spelled with one ‘s’, or two? necessary 这个词是一个 s 还是两个 s？ The article spelled ‘survey’ as ‘servay’. 这篇文章把survey 拼成了servay。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- right
- wrongly
- …
- as
- with
- clearly
- explicitly
- fully
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- to
- [intransitive]
to form words correctly from individual letters 拼出，会拼（单词） Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- right
- wrongly
- …
- as
- with
- clearly
- explicitly
- fully
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- to
- [transitive] spell something
(of letters of a word 构成单词的字母 to form words when they are put together in a particular order 拼作；拼成 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- right
- wrongly
- …
- as
- with
- clearly
- explicitly
- fully
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- to
- [transitive] spell something (for somebody/something)
to have something, usually something bad, as a result; to mean something, usually something bad 招致，意味着（通常指坏事） - [transitive] spell somebody (North American English, informal)
to replace for a short time somebody who is doing a particular activity so that they can rest （短时间）替换，顶替
Word Originverb Middle English: shortening of Old French espeller, from the Germanic base of spell (noun senses 3 and 4).