misspeller
nounEtymology From misspell + -er.
1
One who spells incorrectly.
- We treat a misspelled word like a crime and penalize the misspeller severely; many teachers talk of making children develop a “spelling conscience,” and fail otherwise excellent papers because of a few spelling mistakes.2005, John Holt, The Underachieving School, page 63:
- One of the reasons that dialect verse was automatically taken as humorous was the success of the great misspellers.2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 364: