Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To spell incorrectly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To spell incorrectly.
Wiktionary
- v. To spell incorrectly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To spell incorrectly.
WordNet 3.0
- v. spell incorrectly
Etymologies
- mis- + spell (Wiktionary)
Examples
“How in hell else does someone apparently raised and educated in this country, in English, misspell three simple words in one sentence?”
“While my spelling has never been all that bad, one thing I’ve found has helped on words that I commonly do misspell is to go in and manually correct them rather than using autocorrect once the squiggly red lines appear.”
“Hey, if we misspell the Hebrew word for lion so that it says “gouged,” then take “gouged” to mean “pierced” and then pretend that the passage isn’t David talking about himself and has nothing to do with the messiah, by golly, we have a prophecy about the crucifixtion!”
“It will put barriers to blogs or sites even if they misspell a word.”
Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Kazakh bloggers against online censorship
“As you write in any form box, like WordPress Write Panel or any blog comments, if you misspell a word, Spellbound highlights it with a red dotted underline, similar to Word and WordPerfect.”
“Anyone can misspell a word, and "genealogy" is a doozy.”
“Also, happily, the DP doesn't "misspell" Democratic party in the latest update.”
“No one dies if I misspell a word — and writing isn’t about spelling anyway.”
“As it happens, misspelling "misspell" as mispell is one of the 100.”
“Better misspell some signs and take to the streets …”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misspell’.
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Words I Misspell
There are words suffering from a butcher.
prioprietary, definitely, a lot, bellwether, committed, daiquiri, existence, gauge, guard, guarantee, harass, lightning and 7 more...
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EN - rare verbs
fornicate, enfranchise, tweet, natter, fetter, devil, cork, bunker, canoe, backstroke, carom, queer and 52 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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kevinl's Words
indefatigable, dabble, befuddle, fin, infinity, might, futile, squirm, bookish, feint, liquidity, belt and 126 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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