misspell
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In his original message to Claude, he even managed to misspell the name Riemann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
And they misspell the name of one of the Ukrainian prosecutors.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2019
When I finally thought what to say and began to write, I ruined three sheets of paper by crying on them and a fourth because I forgot to misspell words.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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
For example, he couldn’t tell you my current job and still misspells my primary school age kid’s name, and my kid’s name has four letters.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2021
The list, which Wilkes testified he presented to Clippers consultant Jerry West during lunch in Beverly Hills two weeks after Leonard signed, misspells Wilkes’ last name and erroneously refers to Leonard as “Kawi.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2021
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
During a recent AI training session for educators in South Carolina, an AI-generated world map misspelled Mali as “Mail,” labeled Egypt “Sopth” and replaced Libya with a country simply called “Africa.”
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
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
May 4, 2026An earlier version of this article misspelled Alanna O’Reilly’s name as Illana O’Reiley.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
In filling out the papers, the white officer misspelled Grandpa’s name, making him Richard Vinson instead of Richard Wilson.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
"Contractors working on our behalf have been to the site to reinstate the road surface but unfortunately, when replacing the road markings they have misspelt the wording on the tarmac," a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
The anthology, in which she consciously leaves words misspelt, stayed on the Amazon best-seller list for weeks after publication.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2019
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
Xavier Jugelé must have told me his name three times and I had misspelt it each time.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2017
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
They say her note about “Dr. Trumpet” was a misspelling of Dr. Trombka, Sneed’s psychiatrist.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
Anne, who forgave Bill for misspelling her name, recalled that she had to get the bus from Kinghorn to the school in Bill's home town of Burntisland.
From BBC ● May 22, 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
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Commonly Misspelled Words, List 6
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