misspell

• mis-spell

From mis- +‎ spell.

• enPR: mĭs-spĕlʹ, IPA^(key): /mɪsˈspɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -ɛl

misspell (third-person singular simple present misspells, present participle misspelling, simple past and past participle misspelt or misspelled)

1. (transitive) To spell incorrectly.

   I think they misspelled "crab" on the menu, because it says "crap soup".

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “misspell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “misspell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• psellism