speller

A person who spells.

Noun

  1. A person who spells.
    • I'm a slow reader but a good speller.
    • 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:
  2. A participant in a spelling bee.
  3. A book used to learn how to spell properly.
  4. A 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...

Origin

Etymology tree English spell English -er English speller From spell + -er.

Forms

spellers

Related

misspell misspelling pronunciation respelling pronunciation spelling respell respelling spell spellable spell-check spell check spelling spelling bee spelling book spelling pronunciation

Derived

fingerspeller