misspelling
Americannoun
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the act of spelling incorrectly.
Note his misspelling of that word.
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an incorrectly spelled word.
You have three misspellings in your letter.
noun
Etymology
Origin of misspelling
Example Sentences
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Afram released a trailer for the vanished film anyway—which included a misspelling of co-star Ben Kingsley’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
And then there are the typos: a duplicated “1 wand” on Page 51 and a misspelling on the back cover, where the title appears as “Philospher’s Stone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
They say her note about “Dr. Trumpet” was a misspelling of Dr. Trombka, Sneed’s psychiatrist.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
Anne, who forgave Bill for misspelling her name, recalled that she had to get the bus from Kinghorn to the school in Bill's home town of Burntisland.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
She found another typo in Griswold’s: exsessively—a misspelling she had missed all the previous times she’d pored over this story.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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