Spelling Error
A Spelling Error is an orthographic text error that ...
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- It can be corrected by Spelling Error Correction.
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- See: Homophone, Alphabet, Grapheme, Phonemic Orthography, Letter (Alphabet), Diacritic, Reading Comprehension, Orthography, Linguistic Prescription, Transcription (Linguistics).
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling#Misspellings Retrieved:2018-10-28.
- While some words admit multiple spellings, some are not considered standard, and thus are misspellings. A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "liek" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear", or "no" when one means "know"). Misspellings of the latter type can easily make their way into printed material because they are not caught by simple computerized spell checkers.
Misspellings may be due to either typing errors (e.g. the transposition error teh for the), or lack of knowledge of the correct spelling. Whether or not a word is misspelled may depend on context, as is the case with American / British English distinctions. Misspelling can also be a matter of opinion when variant spellings are accepted by some and not by others. For example, "miniscule" (for "minuscule") is a misspelling to many,[1] and yet it is listed as an acceptable variant in some dictionaries.[2][3]
A well-known Internet scam involves the registration of domain names that are deliberate misspellings of well-known corporate names in order to mislead or defraud. The practice is commonly known as “typosquatting”.
- While some words admit multiple spellings, some are not considered standard, and thus are misspellings. A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "liek" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear", or "no" when one means "know"). Misspellings of the latter type can easily make their way into printed material because they are not caught by simple computerized spell checkers.
- ↑ "miniscule", Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary; states that this spelling is "widely regarded as an error"
- ↑ "miniscule", The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- ↑ "miniscule", Cambridge Dictionary of American English