Spelling's the writing of a word or words with the necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted standard order. It's one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of language. Most spellings attempt to approximate a transcribing of the sounds of the language into alphabetic letters; however, completely phonetic spellings are often the exception, due to drifts in pronunciations over time and irregular spellings adopted through common usage. Spelling standards and con… (More on Spelling)