Passing word to aspell via command line...

Ideally, I would like to interact with aspell directly via the command line
rather than through an external file or interactive pipe mode so that I can
easily capture the output

something like...

aspell -w basball

Or do I really have to create a 1-line file with that word in it and then
run aspell -c file.txt to check that one word?

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Russ Jones
Principal Search Scientist
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