'misspell' is an acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is a verb and is used to mean to spell a word incorrectly. For example, "She had misspelled the word 'cooperate' on her test paper."
Two similar misspellings, involving words we should never misspell.
But if you misspell them, the correct spelling will not be suggested instead, a more innocent word like tuck, count, sick or clock or will be recommended.
It is like molten glass: you can stretch it, shape it, chop it, misspell, mispronounce or misinflect it, cruelly misplace its elements and somehow you still end with English.
No I didn't just misspell bun, he actually served a full buffet prepared entirely from food that he and his new skip-diving mates had fished out of bins in supermarket car parks.
There are automated accounts that are designed purely as curious exercises, such as Pentametron, which scans Twitter for posts that happen to be written in iambic pentameter, and Stealth Mountain, which collects tweets that misspell the phrase "sneak peek" as "sneak peak".
I also made sure to misspell Syracuse, just like the President.
Schlesinger's journals were edited by his sons Andrew and Stephen; both are historians, but they provide virtually no annotation, and they manage to misspell names: Walter Lippmann, Alvin From, Roger Straus, Claus von Bulow, Daryl Hannah.
That's the kind of absurd conspiracy theory you might find in the most rabid corners of the Internet, where people COMMUNICATE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and misspell eazy wurds and bounce their keyboard poison off each other because somehow it feels good, when you're crazy, to surround yourself with crazy".
The article adds, "Some travelers purposely misspell their own names when buying tickets, apparently enough to fool the system".
Some travelers purposely misspell their own names when buying tickets, apparently enough to fool the system.
If anything, it shows some deference to one's hosts, rather than daring them to mispronounce or misspell what can be for them a very strange-sounding name, and facilitates communication in general.
