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Examples of misspelling in a Sentence
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The reviews were littered with misspellings and used a similar style of nonstandard grammar, capitalization and punctuation.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 14 June 2024
The document is riddled with typos and misspellings.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 June 2024
Our living authors also made errors like simple typos and misspellings that the transformer would virtually never commit.
—Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
After a seizure at two months, doctors sequenced his genome and found a single misspelling in a gene called TNPO2.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 13 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1582, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near misspelling
Cite this Entry
“Misspelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misspelling. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
misspelling
noun
mis·spell·ing
(ˈ)mis-ˈspel-iŋ
: an incorrect spelling
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