misspell

[ mis-spel ]

/ mɪsˈspɛl /

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verb (used with or without object), mis·spelled or mis·spelt, mis·spell·ing.

to spell incorrectly.

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Origin of misspell

First recorded in 1645–55; mis-¹ + spell¹

Words nearby misspell

Missouri meerschaum, Missouri River, missout, miss out on, misspeak, misspell, misspelling, misspend, misspent, misstate, misstep

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How to use misspell in a sentence

An earlier version of this report misspelled the name of the Jamaican Gleaner newspaper.
Jamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data|Zack Whittaker|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch
It also means no need to focus on potential misspelled keywords.
Are Core Web Vitals worth the trouble? And confusion around passage ranking; Tuesday’s daily brief|Carolyn Lyden|February 16, 2021|Search Engine Land
Introducing their Speller100, the Bing engineering team hopes to cut down on the number of incorrect search results that come from search AI misunderstanding misspelled queries.
Are Core Web Vitals worth the trouble? And confusion around passage ranking; Tuesday’s daily brief|Carolyn Lyden|February 16, 2021|Search Engine Land
Keyboard controls are under Typing, and here you can enable options such Show text suggestions as I type and Autocorrect misspelled words as I type, as well as tell Windows to add a period after you double-tap the spacebar.
How to completely customize the way you control Windows|David Nield|January 15, 2021|Popular-Science

One in ten search queries are misspelled, according to Google.
What passage indexing and natural language processing mean for the future of SEO|George Nguyen|October 27, 2020|Search Engine Land
Ignore the fashion travesties and focus on that classic jingle that ensured no American would ever misspell “bologna” ever again.
Six Classic Oscar Mayer Wiener Commercials|The Daily Beast Video|July 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Keep a list of all the words you misspell, copying them several times in correct form.
The Century Handbook of Writing|Garland Greever
Concentrate your effort upon a few words at a time—upon those words which you yourself actually misspell.
The Century Handbook of Writing|Garland Greever
It frequently happens that a pupil will spell a word correctly on one test and misspell it on a following test.
Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller|Ernest Horn
Why should we continually misspell the words which we use every day and which we see every day on a printed page.
Plain English|Marian Wharton
Isn't it wonderful beyond the circumference of belief, that a good speller and bad speller happened to misspell the same words?
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12)|Robert G. Ingersoll

British Dictionary definitions for misspell

misspell

/ (ˌmɪsˈspɛl) /

verb -spells, -spelling, -spelt or -spelled

to spell (a word or words) wrongly

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