How to say “spelling” in 41 different 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.
Spelling in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans di/ˈdi/ obsolete spelling of die #838
- Albanian shum/ʃum/ alternative spelling of shumë #527
- Arabic انا/ʔanaː/ alternative spelling of أَنَا #38
- Basque bapatean/baˈpateˌan/ proscribed spelling of bat-batean #1,260
- Bengali ঐ/oi/ alternative spelling of ওই #89
- Bosnian the/ˈthɛ/ alternative spelling of da #689
- Catalan sóc[ˈsok] superseded spelling of soc, deprecated in the… #63
- Croatian the/ˈthɛ/ alternative spelling of da #727
- Czech nejdřív[ˈnɛjdr̝iːf] alternative spelling of nejdříve #609
- Danish the/ˈteːˀ/ alternative spelling of te #483
- Dutch oke/oːˈkeː/ alternative spelling of oké #556
- English okay/ˌəʊˈkeɪ/ Alternative spelling of OK #82
- Esperanto chu/ˈtʃu/ H-system spelling of ĉu #509
- French coeur/kœʁ/ nonstandard spelling of cœur #580
- Galician ó/ɔ/ alternative spelling of ao #211
- Georgian გოგონა[ɡ̊o̞ɡo̞nä] alternative spelling of გოგო #271
- German new/ˈnjuː/ obsolete spelling of neu #661
- Greek τί/ˈti/ Polytonic spelling of τι #285
- Hebrew שלו/ʃeˈlo/ defective spelling of שליו #72
- Hindi हां/ɦɑː̃/ alternative spelling of हाँ #273
- Hungarian asszem[ˈɒsːɛm] pronunciation spelling of azt hiszem #2,380
- Icelandic afhverju/ˈafkʰvɛrjʏ/ nonstandard spelling of af hverju #1,316
- Indonesian mu/ˈmu/ alternative spelling of -mu #244
- Italian hotel/oˈtɛl/ the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet #1,207
- Korean 니[ni] pronunciation spelling of 네 #209
- Malay mu/mu/ alternative spelling of -mu #561
- Malayalam പക്ഷെ/pɐkʂe/ obsolete spelling of പക്ഷേ #13
- Norwegian blomster/ˈblɔmstər/ form removed with the spelling reform of… #1,837
- Persian پایین[pʰɒː.jíːn] alternative spelling of پائین #531
- Portuguese oh/ˈo/ alternative spelling of ó #197
- Romanian cînd/ˈkɨnd/ Formerly standard spelling of când which was… #1,740
- Russian еще[(j)ɪˈɕːɵ] alternative spelling of ещё #67
- Serbian the/ˈthɛ/ alternative spelling of da #794
- Spanish sólo/ˈsolo/ superseded spelling of solo #74
- Swedish nån/ˈnoːn/ pronunciation spelling of någon #104
- Tagalog yan alternative spelling of 'yan #45
- Tamil ஆக்ஸிஜன்/ɑːksɪdʒɐn/ alternative spelling of ஆக்சிஜன் #958
- Turkish bi/bi/ alternative spelling of bi' #621
- Ukrainian вампир[ʋɐmˈpɪr] 1928–1933 spelling of вампі́р, which was… #1,603
- Urdu انھیں/ɪn.ɦẽː/ alternative spelling of اِنہیں #722
- Vietnamese lý[li˧˦] Alternative spelling of lí #217
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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