The invention relates to a spaced winding process for a wire-wound resistor during manufacturing of the resistor. The process comprises the following steps of: (1) performing spaced winding, namely straightening an enameled copper wire with an insulating property to serve as a frame material, and winding a resistance wire on a frame to form a strip-shaped resistor body by using a spaced winding machine; (2) painting, namely partially painting the strip-shaped resistor body by using a special tool; (3) bending, namely bending the painted strip-shaped resistor body to be spiral; and (4) cutting, namely clamping the spiral resistor body on a milling machine and cutting off to form an independent annular resistor body. By the process, the influence of non-uniform thickness of the coated paintof the resistance wire on linear accuracy can be avoided, the loss of the resistance wire caused by a bare wire painting process is eliminated, the frame is not required to be machined, the process flow is simple, the requirements of different resistance values can be met by adjusting the size of the space between windings, and the service life is long, so that the cost is reduced and the qualification rate is improved.