Definitions for spelts

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spelts spelt

Spelling: [spelt]

IPA: /spɛlt/

Spelts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in spelts (elpsst).

Definitions for spelts

noun

1. one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
2. a continuous course or period of work or other activity:
3. a turn of work so taken.
4. a turn, bout, fit, or period of anything experienced or occurring:
5. an indefinite interval or space of time:
6. a period of weather of a specified kind:
7. Australian. a rest period.
8. Archaic. a person or set of persons taking a turn of work to relieve another.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of spell1 .

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 spelts

before 1000; Middle English, Old English from Late Latin spelta, probably from Germanic; compare Old High German spelza (German Spelt)

Examples for spelts

I too was taught the trade of man  And spelt the lesson plain; But they, when I forgot and ran,  Remembered and remain.

I know not why in England the name is spelt with only one r.

In Domesday it is spelt 'Flaneburg,' and flane is the Norse for an arrow or sword.

She pronounced it just as it was spelt, and her father said that ought to be the rule with every language.

And you have spelt 'his' with a capital 'H'—when you know my dislike of that practice!

But, he had been so careful to get it accurately, that he then spelt it with perfect correctness.

Sophia lifted the first of the papers and spelt out the names.

The word Croydon has been spelt originally with an i, which has been changed to y.

Next day I received her reply, every word of which spelt despair.

It is spelt by us with a y in the first syllable, as it was spelt with the corresponding in the Greek.