[1685–95; mis-1 + spelling]This word is first recorded in the period 1685–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: align, blowhole, commodore, sideline, sterilizemis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust
Examples of 'misspelling' in a sentence
misspelling
Not administrators, misspelling your name on a hundred pointless forms.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
That might, of course, have been a misspelling.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Mine is a relatively unusual name and frequently subject to misspelling.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A misspelling of intervention required an intervention all of its own.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
One of the most common hashtags uses a misspelling of the phrase 'self harm'.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Quite the opposite: misspelling, the facility's director later commented, is common in court documents.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Could it be more than a simple case of misspelling?
2019, 'A Giant Sloth Mystery Brought Me Home to Georgia', Smithsonianhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/giant-sloth-mystery-brought-me-home-georgia-180972059/
In his opinion, misspelling his name to a Key West nurse had been a brilliant move.