Past tense of 'misspell'; to spell a word incorrectly.
From 'mis-' (wrong) + 'spell' (to arrange letters to form words). The prefix 'mis-' comes from Old English and means to do something wrongly or badly.
The word 'misspelled' is itself frequently misspelled—people often write 'mispelled' with one 'l,' not realizing that 'spell' comes from Old English and demands that double consonant!
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