spellingwise

English

Etymology

From spelling +‎ -wise.

Adverb

spellingwise (not comparable)

1. In terms of spelling.
   • 1896 October 6, B. Onuf, “A Contribution to the Study of Motor Aphasia”, in George F[rederick] Shrady, editor, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 50, New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, published 24 October 1896, page 607:

     Although to a certain degree he had read the language “spellingwise,” he still recognized many words by familiar combinations of letters and by the sense.

   • 1897, Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities:

     Two things have helped to produce that monstrosity of the schoolroom—the word-pronouncer; the first is the lack of mastery of the word so that the child is forced to read spelling[-]wise.

   • 1900, Psychological Monographs, page 47:

     The varying enunciation of the same combination of consonants, or of vowels, or of both, make it impossible to read English only spellingwise.

   • 1946, B. Marian Brooks, Harry Alvin Brown, Music Education in the Elementary School, page 55:

     Reading notes spellingwise is fatal to expressing feeling through song or instrument. It is like deciphering in reading or transverbalizing in translating a foreign language.