What's the difference between misspelling and misspelt?

Misspelling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misspell
  • (n.) A wrong spelling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An earlier version misspelled Isa Muazu's name as Ifa Muaza.
  • (2) Because while misspelled threats or entreaties for me to get back in the kitchen are certainly easy to mock, the disdain with which they’re employed is not very funny.
  • (3) • On 1 February 2015 this article was amended to correct a misspelling of the Labor leader’s name.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 12 June 2014 to correct a misspelling of Guy Kilty's name.
  • (5) A misspelling of Dr Kapur’s name has also been corrected.
  • (6) A misspelling of Neil Garnham's name was corrected and a superfluous "QC" removed after Hugh Davies' name.
  • (7) Robert E. Ricklefs' name was misspelled throughout Roger Lewin's Research News artide "Egglaying" in birds remains a hot issue (29 Jan., p. 465).
  • (8) Wu-Tang producer RZA sent the magazine a statement to clarify that the group did not know of his business practices at the time of auction, misspelling Shkreli’s name in the email.
  • (9) The original also misspelled the name of the government's secretary for future vision.
  • (10) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
  • (11) The effect of misspelling the other words increased with age and reading skill.
  • (12) She spellchecks on Twitter Asked for etiquette tips on how to stay classy online, Stewart advised the audience to try not to misspell on social media.
  • (13) He also posted a cryptic, misspelled apology on Facebook: “I’m.
  • (14) Analysis of spelling errors for reliance on phonological processing in a subsample (N = 28) revealed that right sitters made more phonetically inaccurate misspellings, whereas, on the left, females, but not males, committed more phonetically accurate misspellings.
  • (15) The original misspelled the name Haworth as Howarth.
  • (16) The original misspelled Edicson Ruiz's name as Ericson Ruiz.
  • (17) He would never knowingly misspell or incorrectly address a letter like that."
  • (18) An earlier version misspelled Lord Justice Beatson's name as Beaston.
  • (19) It sounds like a privileged position to complain about, but for example for couples wanting to move in together – it’s like: ‘Well, can we really afford to?’” • This article was amended on Wednesday 3 June 2015 to correct a misspelling of “brakes” in the opening paragraph.
  • (20) The original misspelled Perpignan as Perpignon and has been corrected.

Misspelt


Definition:

  • () of Misspell

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She had been enraged by a handwritten letter from Brown which misspelt her name, and appeared to contain numerous other spelling errors.
  • (2) And the misspelt banners of news are often exciting, but other channels catch up fast.
  • (3) Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
  • (4) When the paperwork was returned, his name was misspelt.
  • (5) Nonetheless, Bin Laden was now on the radar of security services, albeit if his name was often misspelt and his role described as "financier".
  • (6) Today the Sun is embroiled in a new row with Downing Street after publishing the transcript of a phone call Brown made to Jacqui Janes, the mother of a British soldier who died in Afghanistan last month, trying to placate her over his handwritten letter of condolence that misspelt her name.
  • (7) Photograph: Photograph: Egyptian ministry of antiquities A misspelt version of the forgotten king's name has been found once before, but Wegner said this was the first time the team had heard of the pharaoh.
  • (8) In the original, James Moorehead's name was misspelt.
  • (9) The first, obviously, is whether that "Butt…" is a misspelt preposition at the beginning of an uncompleted sentence or a reference to this nation's one-time leader's backside.
  • (10) You'll still have autocomplete (to turn 'new hand on deck' to ' new Han on deck ') but now there's no excuses for misspelt emails.
  • (11) Earlier this week the Sun misspelt Janes's surname as "Jones" in an online article on the My Sun section of the newspaper's website.
  • (12) Name me one red-blooded man who wouldn't want to validate his neediness by paying a stranger of undetermined gender to send him hollow, misspelt platitudes on the internet.
  • (13) He also described a family holiday on one of its best-known beaches, but misspelt the name: he enjoyed “holidays on the coast at Holcombe”.
  • (14) Their Chinese-made shoulder badges, it was recently noticed after five years, misspelt Oregon as Oregdn.
  • (15) What he says may be unhinged, misspelt and ungrammatical, and it may make many recoil, but by claiming his is a “real” voice, where all else is mediated and therefore distorted, is working for him strategically.
  • (16) The phone call – as described by Brown – took place after the Sun printed a story about the death of a soldier and his mother's complaints that a handwritten letter of condolence from the then prime minister misspelt her son's name.
  • (17) The Sun's new political editor is said to have remonstrated with his editors on Sunday over whether to go hard on the prime minister's misspelt letter to the grieving mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
  • (18) Clearly nothing important is happening in the UK today, as Twitter splutters into life amid mock outrage or fully fledged mirth over Ed Miliband's misspelt Blockbusters tweet.
  • (19) Netjes was not initially thought to be involved in the case because her name was misspelt on the charge-sheet, and because she has never worked for al-Jazeera.
  • (20) Gordon Brown was drawn into a politically embarrassing argument over equipment shortages in Afghanistan as he tried to placate the mother of a dead serviceman over his handwritten letter of condolence that misspelt her name.

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