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Meaning of bad speller in English

bad speller
collocation
(also poor speller)
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someone who finds it difficult to spell words correctly and often makes mistakes:
In school I was always a bad speller.
She's a self-confessed bad speller.
Dyslexics are often slow readers and poor spellers.
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(Definition of bad speller from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
 

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