Definitions for spells

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spells spell

Spelling: [spel]

IPA: /spɛl/

Spells is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in spells (ellpss).

Definitions for spells

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 spells

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 spells

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

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

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

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.

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.