misspell
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Toczylowski said federal agents sometimes misspell the name of the person they are booking into custody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
He added that "typo-squatting" - a type of cyber-crime that targets users who incorrectly misspell an internet domain - is common.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2023
In a group called Healthcare Heroes for Personal Choice, an administrator instructed people to remove or misspell buzzwords and to avoid using the syringe emoji.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
The thing is my in-laws tend to misspell my part of the name, or forget it all together in correspondence.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2019
Two recent popular books on the history of the dating of Earth actually manage to misspell his name.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Cinc, a real estate lead generation platform, offers agents an AI-powered digital assistant that purposefully misspells words and uses emojis to make interactions with potential leads appear more human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The amendment to Lisa Marie's will also "misspells her mother's name" and bears a signature by Lisa Marie that "appears inconsistent with her usual and customary signature", says the court filing seen by the BBC.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2023
A sobering travelogue through the world of maternal health care, yes, but it also misspells “Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2020
He even misspells his name when reserving airplane tickets and says it has never created a problem going through security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2018
Some boat owner in Florida misspells “Grandma” and look what happens: a myth is bom, a province is renamed, a Communist party newspaper is launched.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Corrections & Amplifications: The name of Venu Krishna, U.S. equity strategist at Barclays, was misspelled in an earlier version of this article.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
One password-protected website has the creatively misspelled URL poiymarket.com, which is indistinguishable from polymarket.com when the “i” is capitalized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Think of the number of times you have misspelled something, or said the wrong word, and still been understood.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
The name of an Arkansas coal plant receiving an exemption was misspelled, for instance, as was the name of the company Phillips 66, which was granted exemptions at its oil refineries in Illinois and Texas.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
The only thing typed in was my name, and that had been misspelled.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Cobain, who often misspelt his own name, signed the instrument "Kurdt Kobain".
From BBC ● May 21, 2023
Skipping past Christian Fuchs, whose name was rather unfortunately misspelt on the teamsheet, Willmott delivered a terrific cross on the run that exposed Wes Morgan’s poor positioning.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2019
In some places, words are redacted or misspelt.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2018
Introduced in 2017, the spelling test asks children to identify misspelt words.
From BBC ● May 17, 2018
There were, as I recall, many misspelt, ill- formed sentences about how much in love the couple were, how wonderful the second footman was, and how marvellous the future was that awaited them both.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
But in another instance, Epstein was critical of misspelling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Above him hung a “Moore’s Refishing” sign, a friend’s comical misspelling of the shop’s name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
The misspelling appeared on a re-patched section of Watermoor Road in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
They say her note about “Dr. Trumpet” was a misspelling of Dr. Trombka, Sneed’s psychiatrist.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
She found another typo in Griswold’s: exsessively—a misspelling she had missed all the previous times she’d pored over this story.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Vocabulary lists containing misspell
Commonly Misspelled Words, List 6
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