Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of spelling incorrectly.
- n. A word spelled incorrectly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A false spelling; false orthography.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A wrong spelling.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a spelling that is incorrect
Etymologies
- mis- + spelling (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If the title misspelling is meant to be some sort of pun, it has passed me by.”
“Please note that the misspelling is theirs not mine.”
“But to think a misspelling is The End of The Republic (or The WORLD) is overreacting quite a bit.”
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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.”
The Washington Post: Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping
“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.”
The Washington Post: Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping
“Although the first known published reference to ghoti credits one William Ollier (born 1824), the clever misspelling is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping
“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.”
The Washington Post: Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping
“You need to make sure that the name misspelling does not cause you any problems with those tax issues.”
The Washington Post: Lender choice shouldn't be made until after comparison shopping
“Infiniti that's not a misspelling is the new premium division of Nissan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misspelling’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words about words
Most of these describe word patterns or relationships between words.
panvocalic, palindrome, anagram, transposition, antigram, reversal, isogram, alternade, trinade, beheadment, decapitation, apheresis and 149 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for misspelling.
chained_bear Pro, that site rocks. "Nothing gets a point across like a solid kick to the hemmies." Feb 17, 2010
Telofy 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. Feb 17, 2010
Prolagus Ten words you need to stop misspelling. Jan 25, 2010
bilby "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. Mar 13, 2009
sonofgroucho I am rather good at these: see "euphimism", for example. Oct 6, 2007