Example sentences for: misspelled

How can you use “misspelled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Swop, the misspelled form of swap has become so widely used that it is now accepted as a standard variant by most dictionaries.

  • Scandals customarily generate lots of quick, trashy literature; the kind of unedited, misspelled garbage designed to sell scads of copies before people realize just how junky it is.

  • An English noun which is definitely back-formed from a plural is blints (often misspelled “blintz”).

  • When one's name is deliberately or even unconsciously misspelled, or when it is knowingly mispronounced, a person perceives it as a slap at his pride.

  • Upon reading Adrian Room's “Don't Get Your Titles in a Twist” [XVI, 3], I was happily surprised to see reference made to the tiny, misspelled, but spellbinding novel by Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters . I have been an ardent admirer of “Miss Daisy” ever since 1928, when I had the good fortune to be cast in a dramatization of her novel, presented at the Strand Theatre, London, in January of that year.


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