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I wouldn't correlate intelligence and spelling.... spelling originally was a phonetic encoding of the spoken word..the sounds made.... not unlike written music.... if you look at the great written of say Thomas Jefferson the spelling is quite fluid and not fixed.

I do believe it was Webster that introduced the concept of fixed spellings irrelevant of the actual sounds

Then you get in the debate between using phonics to spell and what they call the whole word system

When I went to school there were in transition between the two .. I never got phonetics but then its not necessarily correct either way since now we do a fix spelling

Then add in the fact that I'm Dyslexic...

I was was at the top of my class the entire time in school in reading comprehension and always a bottom the class in spelling..

My spelling is abysmal and always has been

The only thing that save me nowadays is spell check

My spelling is abysmal and always has been...

Mine as well. In spite of that I can design electronic apparatus, layout the circuit boards, and bring them to life. I can also write firmware on any micro controller, programming right down to the metal. Typically, my designs access various sensor systems and control motors and other actuator systems. For fun I design and test solid rocket motors and fabricate all sorts of stuff in my machine shop.

Spelling capability is a very poor indicator of intelligence.