misspell

English

Alternative forms

• mis-spell

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-?

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *missaz

Proto-Germanic *missa-

Proto-West Germanic *missa-

Old English mis-

Middle English mys-

English mis-

English spell

English misspell

From mis- + spell.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭs-spĕlʹ, IPA^(key): /mɪsˈspɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To spell incorrectly.

   I think they misspelled "crab" on the menu, because it says "crap soup".

Derived terms

• misspellable
• misspeller

Translations

to spell incorrectly

• Arabic: أَخْطَأَ اَلتَّهْجِئَة (ʔaḵṭaʔa t-tahjiʔa)
• Bulgarian: неправилно пиша (nepravilno piša)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拼錯 / 拼错 (zh) (pīncuò)

• Danish: stave forkert
• Dutch: misspellen, verkeerd spellen
• Esperanto: misliterumi
• Finnish: kirjoittaa väärin
• French: mal orthographier, mal écrire
• German: falsch buchstabieren, falsch schreiben
• Hebrew: שגה באיות (shagá beiyút)
• Hungarian: elír (hu)
• Italian: scrivere male
• Japanese: つづりを間違う (tsuzuri o machigau)
• Manx: mee-lettyr
• Māori: tuhi hē
• Persian: غلط نوشتن (ġalat neveštan)
• Portuguese: escrever errado
• Russian: орфографи́чески непра́вильно писа́ть (orfografíčeski neprávilʹno pisátʹ), де́лать орфографи́ческие оши́бки (délatʹ orfografíčeskije ošíbki)
• Spanish: deletrear / escribir mal / malamente, mal / malamente deletrear / escribir
• Swedish: stava fel, felstava
• Welsh: camsillafu

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “misspell”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “misspell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• psellism