misspelling

See also: mis-spelling

English

Alternative forms

• mis-spelling, (itself a misspelling) mispelling

Etymology

From mis- +‎ spelling.

Pronunciation

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Noun

misspelling (countable and uncountable, plural misspellings)

1. (uncountable) Incorrect spelling.
2. (countable) A misspelled word.

   Synonym: heterography

   “Accomodation” is a common misspelling of “accommodation”.

   • 2005 September, John H. Jenkins, The Dao of Unihan, International & Text Group, Apple Computer, Inc.:

     My own Chinese name might conceivably be written in no fewer than four different ways in Unicode: 井作恆, 井作恒, 丼作恆, and 丼作恒. I would personally consider all but the first misspellings, just as I would the spelling of my English name as Jon Jenkins or John Jenkyns.

Translations

misspelt word

Armenian: ուղղագրական սխալ (uġġagrakan sxal), տառասխալ (hy) (taṙasxal) Chinese: Mandarin: 錯別字 / 错别字 (zh) (cuòbiézì) Danish: stavefejl (da) n Dutch: spelfout (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kirjoitusvirhe (fi) French: faute d’orthographe (fr) f Galician: gralla (gl) f, errata (gl) f, falta de ortografía f, erro ortográfico m German: Rechtschreibfehler (de) m, Schreibfehler (de) m, Falschschreibung (de) f, Fehlschreibung f Greek: ανορθογραφία (el) f (anorthografía), ανορθογράφημα (el) n (anorthográfima) Hebrew: שגיאת כתיב (he) f (shgiat ktiv) Hungarian: elírás (hu), elgépelés, helyesírási hiba (typo), hibás írásmódú alak (misspelt word) Italian: errore di scrittura m, errore ortografico m, errore d'ortografia m Japanese: スペルミス (superu-misu) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: pareizrakstības kļūda f, pārrakstīšanās f Manx: mee-lettraghey m Norwegian: Bokmål: stavefeil m Nynorsk: stavefeil m Persian: غلط املایی (ğalat-e emlâyi) Polish: błąd ortograficzny (pl) m, byk (pl) m Portuguese: erro ortográfico m Russian: орфографи́ческая оши́бка f (orfografíčeskaja ošíbka), опи́ска (ru) f (opíska), опеча́тка (ru) f (opečátka) Spanish: falta de ortografía f, error ortográfico, deletreo erróneo m, grafía errada f Swedish: stavfel (sv) n Turkish: imla hatası, yazım hatası

Verb

misspelling

1. present participle and gerund of misspell

See also

• (US) misspelled
• (UK) misspelt

Further reading

• misspelling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia