Example Sentences

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Think of the number of times you have misspelled something, or said the wrong word, and still been understood.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

They then displayed a screenshot of a URL that appears to have misspelled “tumblers” by adding an extra “l” to spell out “tumblerls” instead.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2024

A relative may be excluded from a census, or the census taker may have misspelled the name.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2021

We’ll text and a lot of his texts will have misspelled words or mumble jumble.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2019

Exercise: Prepare for your instructor a corrected list of words which you have misspelled in your papers to the present time.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland