misspell

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ spell

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪsˈspɛl/

  Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

misspell (third-person singular simple present misspells, present participle misspelling, simple past and past participle misspelt or misspelled)

1. To spell incorrectly.

Translations

to spell incorrectly

• Arabic: أخطأ التهجئة (ar) ('áxTa'a al-tahjí'a)
• Bulgarian: неправилно пиша (bg) (nepravilno pisha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拼錯 (cmn), 拼错 (cmn) (pīncuò)

• Danish: stave forkert (da)
• Dutch: misspellen (nl), verkeerd spellen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kirjoittaa väärin
• French: mal orthographier (fr), mal écrire (fr)
• German: falsch buchstabieren (de)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: elír (hu)
• Italian: scrivere male (it)
• Japanese: つづりを間違う (ja) (tsuzuri-o machigau)
• Manx: mee-lettyr (gv)
• Russian: орфографически неправильно писать (ru) (orfografíčeski neprávil’no pisát’), делать орфографические ошибки (ru) (délat’ orfografíčeskije ošíbki)
• Spanish: deletrear mal (es)
• Swedish: stava fel (sv)

References

• misspell in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• misspell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913