Pigeon vs. Spelling

Pigeonnoun

One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.

Pigeonnoun

(slang) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

Pigeonnoun

(slang) Concern or responsibility (often in some such phrase as: "it's his pigeon", "it's her pigeon", etc.).

Pigeonverb

(transitive) to deceive with a confidence game

Pigeonnoun

Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

Pigeonnoun

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

Pigeonverb

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

Pigeonnoun

wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

Pigeonnoun

a stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.

Pigeonnoun

a pigeon descended from the wild rock dove, kept for racing, showing, and carrying messages, and common as a feral bird in towns.

Pigeonnoun

a gullible person, especially someone swindled in gambling or the victim of a confidence trick.

Pigeonnoun

an aircraft from one's own side.

Pigeonnoun

archaic spelling of pidgin

Pigeonnoun

a person's particular responsibility or business

Spellingnoun

(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.

Spellingnoun

(uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.

Spellingnoun

(countable) A specific spelling of a word.

Spellingnoun

A spelling test or spelling bee.

Spellingnoun

The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.

Spellingadjective

Of or pertaining to spelling.

Spellingnoun

forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

Spelling

Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme).