Literal in the sense that "No, it's not a Spell Card." (well it could be, the hint wasn't referring to that, but no, it's not a Spell Card.)
Literal in the sense that "Yes, I did spell it out for you!" (at least if you find the hidden clue that explains how to decode the way I spelled it out so it's in English and not gibberish).
And if that doesn't give it away, short of saying "the answer is...", nothing else will.