🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

拼写错误

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pīnxiě cuòwù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Misspelling/ˌmɪsˈpɛl.ɪŋ/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个词的错误是一个拼写错误。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An incorrect or erroneous way of spelling a word.

    "The word 'definately' is a common misspelling of 'definitely'."
  2. 2

    A mistake made in the spelling of a word.

    "The teacher marked the misspelling in the student's essay."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'misspelling' is a compound word formed from the prefix 'mis-', meaning 'wrongly' or 'badly', and the word 'spelling', which comes from the Old French 'espelling', derived from the Latin 'spelling', meaning 'to spell out'. The concept has evolved to denote an incorrect arrangement of letters in a word.

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