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Dh says spelt.. but isn't that a kind of flour?

and in this sentence is it "the word was spelled/spelt wrong" or "the word was spelled/spelt wrongly."?

Tagging. Wanna know. Or even spellt. Spelt is a kind of grain I think!

I would say that the word was spelled incorrectly.

Not sure if that's right or not. <lurks for better pedants>

Both are fine.
dreamed/dreamt is the same

Nowadays both are acceptable.
<mutters something about dumbing down>

You can't dumb down history
It's to do with which verb group they fell into in Old English.

both are fine

wrongly is correct
unless you want to rejig the punctuation and it's a sentence about the word 'wrong'

So is spellt one 'l' or two?

one L in spelt
two in spelled

Ok. Thanks. Odd! And do you pronounce 'spelled' as 'spelt' or just the way it's written.

Oops, that was a question. ?

spelled is past tense "She spelled it this way"
Spelt is present tense "the word is spelt wrong"

In 'The word is spelt wrong'

is 'spelt' is a verb? So should it be 'spelt wrongly'?

I remember like this:

I spilled the milk. The milk is spilt.

That's right, isn't it ?

or 'spelt incorrectly' even??

This thread had made me unsure what I'd say in some cases. RecursiveMoon's example is fine for some indications of an earlier event.

But is there a preferred version if those examples are amended to:

I have spilt the milk. / I have spilled the milk.
The milk has been spilt. / The milk has been spilled.

"the word is spelt incorrectly" because "spelt is present tense".
that's not right, sorry.

In that sentence, "is spelt" is the verb - and it's passive.

Spelled is the preferred spelling whichever mood or tense you are using.
It is common to say spelt, though.
There's no reason why you can't use "spelt" instead of "spelled" but it doesn't look so nice, so maybe for informal writing only.

Spelt is indeed a method of manufacturing grains.