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A misspelling of "ethylenediaminetetraacetates" would be "etylmnieetetraacetatfs."
misspell by Nate January 15, 2004

misspelt 

The correct past participle of "to misspell".
"Feck, that's misspelt."
misspelt by KHD August 28, 2003

Misspellation 

Very sexy variation of misspelling. When someone misspells a word because they are incredibly stupid, that's a misspellation.
Len wrote "wasy" instead of "easy", I tried to correct her mistake and wrote "wast": I misspelled her misspellation.
The word misspell misspelled to be humorous. Its funny you see.
mispell by w00tw00t April 5, 2003

mispelled 

how words are often written in urban dictionary
mispelled by mandingoe April 29, 2004

misspelt 

Yet another example of a 'strong verb' past form. It is the past tense and past participle of misspell. Apart from dialectal preferences, it is equal in meaning to the form misspell in all ways.

British English shows a preference for retaining strong verb forms (burnt, learnt, spelt, dreamt, spoilt etc). American English shows a preference for ignora... I'm mean simplification (burned, learned etc).

Compare insure/ensure and inquiry/enquiry.
Most strong verbs' past tense is misspelt in American/British English.
misspelt by Dave December 31, 2003