Misspelling
"Misspelling" in a Sentence (5 examples)
His misspelling of that word eliminated him from the contest.
This is a common misspelling.
"Blow the lid of" is a misspelling of "blow the lid off".
Accomodation is a common misspelling of accommodation.
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.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.