misspell

[ mis-spel ]

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

to spell incorrectly.

Origin of misspell

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

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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 BEAST
Editor'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 BEAST
The 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 BEAST
This 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 BEAST
Miller filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to throw out any misspelled ballots.
Miller's Lawyers Call It Quits | Shushannah Walshe | November 12, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

It was a hard word, and one often misspelled by people much older and wiser than these children.
Marjorie's Busy Days | Carolyn Wells
Only one typo found and corrected; susceptibility was misspelled as “susceptibilty”.
Educational Work of the Girl Scouts | Louise Stevens Bryant
With 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 | Various
Together they read misspelled words scrawled in crude characters.
The Long Dim Trail | Forrestine C. Hooker
In 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

misspell

/ (ˌmɪsˈspɛl) /

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

to spell (a word or words) wrongly

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