How to say “spelling” in 41 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Malayalam, where പക്ഷെ is the 13th most used word.
- Afrikaans di obsolete spelling of die #838
- Albanian shum alternative spelling of shumë #527
- Arabic انا alternative spelling of أَنَا #38
- Basque bapatean proscribed spelling of bat-batean #1,260
- Bengali ঐ alternative spelling of ওই #89
- Bosnian the alternative spelling of da #689
- Catalan sóc superseded spelling of soc, deprecated in the… #63
- Croatian the alternative spelling of da #727
- Czech nejdřív alternative spelling of nejdříve #609
- Danish the alternative spelling of te #483
- Dutch oke alternative spelling of oké #556
- English okay Alternative spelling of OK #82
- Esperanto chu H-system spelling of ĉu #509
- French coeur nonstandard spelling of cœur #580
- Galician ó alternative spelling of ao #211
- Georgian გოგონა alternative spelling of გოგო #271
- German new obsolete spelling of neu #661
- Greek τί Polytonic spelling of τι #285
- Hebrew שלו defective spelling of שליו #72
- Hindi हां alternative spelling of हाँ #273
- Hungarian asszem pronunciation spelling of azt hiszem #2,380
- Icelandic afhverju nonstandard spelling of af hverju #1,316
- Indonesian mu alternative spelling of -mu #244
- Italian hotel the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet #1,207
- Korean 니 pronunciation spelling of 네 #209
- Malay mu alternative spelling of -mu #561
- Malayalam പക്ഷെ obsolete spelling of പക്ഷേ #13
- Norwegian blomster form removed with the spelling reform of… #1,837
- Persian پایین alternative spelling of پائین #531
- Portuguese oh alternative spelling of ó #197
- Romanian cînd Formerly standard spelling of când which was… #1,740
- Russian еще alternative spelling of ещё #67
- Serbian the alternative spelling of da #794
- Spanish sólo superseded spelling of solo #74
- Swedish nån pronunciation spelling of någon #104
- Tagalog yan alternative spelling of 'yan #45
- Tamil ஆக்ஸிஜன் alternative spelling of ஆக்சிஜன் #958
- Turkish bi alternative spelling of bi' #621
- Ukrainian вампир 1928–1933 spelling of вампі́р, which was… #1,603
- Urdu انھیں alternative spelling of اِنہیں #722
- Vietnamese lý Alternative spelling of lí #217
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.