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SPELLDOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spelldown mean? 

SPELLDOWN (noun)
  The noun SPELLDOWN has 1 sense:

1. a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctlyplay

  Familiarity information: SPELLDOWN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPELLDOWN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

spelldown; spelling bee; spelling contest

Hypernyms ("spelldown" is a kind of...):

competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)


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