misspelling

See also: mis-spelling

English

Alternative forms

• mis-spelling, mispelling (itself a misspelling)

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

misspelled 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 (ġalat-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