His misspelling of that word eliminated him from the contest.
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Misspelling
Synonyms for "misspelling" (4 found)
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Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
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3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ուղղագրական սխալ noun (misspelled word)
- տառասխալ noun (misspelled word)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 錯別字 /错别字 noun (misspelled word)
Danish
1 entries- stavefejl noun (misspelled word)
Dutch
2 entries- spelfout noun (misspelled word)
- spellingsfout noun (misspelled word)
Finnish
1 entries- kirjoitusvirhe noun (misspelled word)
French
1 entries- faute d'orthographe noun (misspelled word)
Galician
4 entries- errata noun (misspelled word)
- erro ortográfico noun (misspelled word)
- falta de ortografía noun (misspelled word)
- gralla noun (misspelled word)
German
4 entries- Falschschreibung noun (misspelled word)
- Fehlschreibung noun (misspelled word)
- Rechtschreibfehler noun (misspelled word)
- Schreibfehler noun (misspelled word)
Greek
2 entries- ανορθογράφημα noun (misspelled word)
- ανορθογραφία noun (misspelled word)
Hebrew
1 entries- שגיאת כתיב noun (misspelled word)
Hungarian
4 entries- elgépelés noun (misspelled word)
- elírás noun (misspelled word)
- helyesírási hiba (typo) noun (misspelled word)
- hibás írásmódú alak noun (misspelled word)
Italian
3 entries- errore d'ortografia noun (misspelled word)
- errore di scrittura noun (misspelled word)
- errore ortografico noun (misspelled word)
Japanese
1 entries- スペルミス noun (misspelled word)
Latvian
2 entries- pareizrakstības kļūda noun (misspelled word)
- pārrakstīšanās noun (misspelled word)
Manx
1 entries- mee-lettraghey noun (misspelled word)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stavefeil noun (misspelled word)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stavefeil noun (misspelled word)
Persian
1 entries- غلط املایی noun (misspelled word)
Polish
2 entries- byk noun (misspelled word)
- błąd ortograficzny noun (misspelled word)
Portuguese
1 entries- erro ortográfico noun (misspelled word)
Russian
3 entries- опеча́тка noun (misspelled word)
- опи́ска noun (misspelled word)
- орфографи́ческая оши́бка noun (misspelled word)
Spanish
4 entries- deletreo erróneo noun (misspelled word)
- error ortográfico noun (misspelled word)
- espeleo equivocado noun (misspelled word)
- falta ortográfica noun (misspelled word)
Swedish
1 entries- stavfel noun (misspelled word)
Turkish
2 entries- imla hatası noun (misspelled word)
- yazım hatası noun (misspelled word)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
This is a common misspelling.
Source: tatoeba (5246490)
"Blow the lid of" is a misspelling of "blow the lid off".
Source: tatoeba (8046469)
Accomodation is a common misspelling of accommodation.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
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