misspell
Origin of misspell
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How to use misspell in a sentence
It is easy to laugh at broken toilets and misspelled signs in Sochi, but the underlying story cannot be avoided.
Putin’s Sochi and Hitler’s Berlin: The Love Affair Between Dictators and the Olympic Games. | Garry Kasparov | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEditor's Note: Due to an editing error, a gastroenterologist's name was misspelled as LaPoo.
Suffering From An ‘Incurable Respiratory Disease’ This Winter? Relax. It’s Just RSV. | Kent Sepkowitz | January 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe traders and their compatriots had hilarious, awful, misspelled nicknames for each other.
Speed Read: The Juiciest Bits From the UBS LIBOR Settlement | Matthew Zeitlin | December 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was no longer possible; my friend had misspelled the word mitomycin many rounds earlier.
Rebecca Sealfon: The Year I Won the Scripps National Spelling Bee | Rebecca Sealfon | May 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMiller filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to throw out any misspelled ballots.
It was a hard word, and one often misspelled by people much older and wiser than these children.
Marjorie's Busy Days | Carolyn WellsOnly one typo found and corrected; susceptibility was misspelled as “susceptibilty”.
Educational Work of the Girl Scouts | Louise Stevens BryantWith ten contestants to a file, count finishing first as equal to two misspelled words at first, later to one misspelled word.
Games and Play for School Morale | VariousTogether they read misspelled words scrawled in crude characters.
The Long Dim Trail | Forrestine C. HookerIn contests such as spelling, words are purposely misspelled in order to favor the sweetheart or to keep from “turning her down.”
A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes | Sanford Bell
British Dictionary definitions for misspell
/ (ˌmɪsˈspɛl) /
to spell (a word or words) wrongly
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