Definitions for spell

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spell spell

Spelling: [spel]

IPA: /spɛl/

Spell is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in spell (ellps).

Definitions for spell

noun

1. a word, phrase, or form of words supposed to have magic power; charm; incantation:
2. a state or period of enchantment:
3. any dominating or irresistible influence; fascination:
4. a continuous course or period of work or other activity:
5. a turn of work so taken.
6. a turn, bout, fit, or period of anything experienced or occurring:
7. an indefinite interval or space of time:
8. a period of weather of a specified kind:
9. Australian. a rest period.
10. Archaic. a person or set of persons taking a turn of work to relieve another.

Verb phrases

1. spell down, to outspell others in a spelling match.
2. spell out, to explain something explicitly, so that the meaning is unmistakable: to write out in full or enumerate the letters of which a word is composed:

verb (used with object)

1. to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.):
2. (of letters) to form (a word, syllable, etc.):
3. to read letter by letter or with difficulty (often followed by out):
4. to discern or find, as if by reading or study (often followed by out).
5. to signify; amount to:
6. to take the place of for a time; relieve:
7. Australian. to declare or give a rest period to.

verb (used without object)

1. to name, write, or give the letters of words, syllables, etc.:
2. to express words by letters, especially correctly.
3. Australian. to have or take a rest period.

Origin of spell

1250-1300; Middle English spellen Old French espeller Germanic; compare Old English spellian to talk, announce (derivative of spell spell²), Old High Germ

Examples for spell

A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.

We could see the smile working on White Quiver like a spell.

Her spell had no effect on the god, who at once cast his net over her.

In order to break the spell and bear children, they must collect four items from the mysterious woods.

She leaned towards me, and beauty breathed about her as a spell.

Suffice it to say that Radcliffe put an Avada Kedavra spell on the song, because he absolutely killed it!

That's his last dodge; I've seen the spell coming on, for some time.

He was as if under a spell, and his dark, strong face glowed with the magic of it.

It features a young girl at a spelling bee who is asked to spell “Hagan.”

As a dyslexic,” he said, “the spell checker has transformed my life.