Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of spelling incorrectly.
- noun A word spelled incorrectly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A false spelling; false orthography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wrong spelling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A
misspelt word. - verb Present participle of
misspell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a spelling that is incorrect
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the title misspelling is meant to be some sort of pun, it has passed me by.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Talking Us Into A Depression 2009
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Please note that the misspelling is theirs not mine.
Too much to post, not enough time (week 2) Not a sheep 2009
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In your case, if the misspelling is minor, the government employee who receives your name-change form may simply not see the misspelling and not correct the information.
Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping Ilyce R. Glink 2010
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In your case, if the misspelling is minor, the government employee who receives your name change form may simply not see the misspelling and not correct the information.
Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping Ilyce R. Glink 2010
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But to think a misspelling is The End of The Republic (or The WORLD) is overreacting quite a bit.
Book Review: Things That Make Us [Sic] makes me slightly ill « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Although the first known published reference to ghoti credits one William Ollier (born 1824), the clever misspelling is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw.
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If you find out that you're not getting the right tax benefits, reductions or discounts, and it's because of the name misspelling, you may need to talk to a supervisor, if you are able to find one.
Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping Ilyce R. Glink 2010
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You need to make sure that the name misspelling does not cause you any problems with those tax issues.
Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping Ilyce R. Glink 2010
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You need to make sure that the name misspelling does not cause you any problems with those tax issues.
Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping Ilyce R. Glink 2010
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If you find out that you're not getting the right tax benefits, reductions or discounts, and it's due to the name misspelling, you may need to talk to a supervisor, if you are able to find one.
Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping Ilyce R. Glink 2010
sonofgroucho commented on the word misspelling
I am rather good at these: see "euphimism", for example.
October 6, 2007
bilby commented on the word misspelling
"keep in mind this is just my opinion, but with the expericance I have on poetry sites I feel that to write with misspellings is simply a sign of simplicity or ignorance, it says to your reader that you have no education."
- forum post on Poetry Coffee Shop.
March 13, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word misspelling
Ten words you need to stop misspelling.
January 25, 2010
Telofy commented on the word misspelling
I’ve found that sometimes children’s spelling mistakes can be quite elucidating regarding phonological features of their respective accents. Is there by any chance a searchable corpus of school children’s writing? (I couldn’t find any trace of one.) If not, why?
Thanks.
February 17, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word misspelling
Pro, that site rocks. "Nothing gets a point across like a solid kick to the hemmies."
February 18, 2010