misspeller
English
Etymology
misspell + -er
Noun
misspeller (plural misspellers)
- One who spells incorrectly.
- 2005, John Holt, The Underachieving School, page 63:
- We treat a misspelled word like a crime and penalize the misspeller severely; many teachers talk of making children develop a “spelling conscience,” and fail otherwise excellent papers because of a few spelling mistakes.
- 2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 364:
- One of the reasons that dialect verse was automatically taken as humorous was the success of the great misspellers.
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