misspelled
adjective, verb
misspelled is spelled M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is mispelled: about 520 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Misspelled is an adjective meaning “Not spelled correctly”.
How many letters and syllables are in misspelled?
| Letters | 10: M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 29,270th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mispelled, about 520 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 misspelled?
Misspelled is spelled M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for misspelled 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 misspelled?
Misspelled appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th 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 misspelled?
- US
Misspelled 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: En-us-misspelled.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of misspelled
- misspelt UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does misspelled mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not spelled correctly.
The ransom letter contained many misspelled words.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of misspell
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).