A past tense and a
past participle of spell.
To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct
orthography.
Unknown to most 12-year-olds who hang out in IRC
chatrooms and claim to be mystics with a well-formed world-view, spelt IS a word.
He
spelt the word right, but
forgot the accent.
The word ``satire'' ought to be spelled with i, and not with y. --Dryden.
Yesterday in Spelling class, we spelt words starting with the letter `
Z'.