Pigeon vs. Spelling — What's the Difference?

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

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).

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

The forming of words with letters in an accepted order; orthography.

An aircraft from one's own side.

The art or study of orthography.

Archaic spelling of pidgin

The way in which a word is spelled.

A person's particular responsibility or business

A person's ability to spell words

Any of various birds of the widely distributed family Columbidae, characteristically having plump bodies, small heads, and short legs, especially the rock pigeon or any of its domesticated varieties.

Present participle of spell

(Slang) One who is easily swindled; a dupe.

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

An object of special concern; an affair or matter.

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

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

(countable) A specific spelling of a word.

(uncountable) The meat from this bird.

A spelling test or spelling bee.

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

(music) A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.

A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.

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

A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.

Of or pertaining to spelling.

A weak or useless person.

Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

Concern or responsibility.

(transitive) To deceive with a confidence game.

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

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

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

Wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs