Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To spell incorrectly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To spell incorrectly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To spell incorrectly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
spell incorrectly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb spell incorrectly
Etymologies
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Examples
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How in hell else does someone apparently raised and educated in this country, in English, misspell three simple words in one sentence?
Gateway Pundit 2009
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While my spelling has never been all that bad, one thing I’ve found has helped on words that I commonly do misspell is to go in and manually correct them rather than using autocorrect once the squiggly red lines appear.
My, problem « 2009
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Hey, if we misspell the Hebrew word for lion so that it says “gouged,” then take “gouged” to mean “pierced” and then pretend that the passage isn’t David talking about himself and has nothing to do with the messiah, by golly, we have a prophecy about the crucifixtion!
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It will put barriers to blogs or sites even if they misspell a word.
Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Kazakh bloggers against online censorship 2009
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As you write in any form box, like WordPress Write Panel or any blog comments, if you misspell a word, Spellbound highlights it with a red dotted underline, similar to Word and WordPerfect.
I FOUND YOU – ONLINE SPELL CHECKER! « Lorelle on WordPress 2006
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Anyone can misspell a word, and "genealogy" is a doozy.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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Also, happily, the DP doesn't "misspell" Democratic party in the latest update.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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No one dies if I misspell a word — and writing isn’t about spelling anyway.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks Part Two 2010
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No one dies if I misspell a word — and writing isn’t about spelling anyway.
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No one dies if I misspell a word — and writing isn’t about spelling anyway.
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