misspell
/mɪsˈspɛl/verb
misspell is spelled M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L. The wrong spelling people search most is mispell: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Misspell is a verb meaning “To spell incorrectly”.
How many letters and syllables are in misspell?
| Letters | 8: M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 69,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mispell, about 190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell misspell?
Misspell is spelled M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for misspell in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is misspell?
Misspell appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce misspell?
- /mɪsˈspɛl/
Misspell has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-misspell.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with misspell
Also written: mis-spell (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of misspell
- misspells present, singular, he/she/it
- misspelling participle, present
- misspelt participle, past
- misspelled participle, past
- mis-spell
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does misspell mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To spell incorrectly.
I think they misspelled "crab" on the menu, because it says "crap soup".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Misspell in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to spell incorrectly:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mal orthographier, mal écrire |
| German | falsch buchstabieren, falsch schreiben |
| Portuguese | escrever errado |
| Spanish | deletrear / escribir mal / malamente, mal / malamente deletrear / escribir |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does misspell come from?
From mis- + spell.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).