miswriting
miswriting is the present participle and gerund of miswrite.
Meaning of miswrite
Verb
miswrite (third-person singular simple present miswrites, present participle miswriting, simple past miswrote, past participle miswritten)
- To write incorrectly.
- […] but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben
Noun
miswriting (plural miswritings)
- A miswritten word.
- Near-synonyms: slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ; writo; typo; misprint
- The form mrkws of the Istanbul manuscript is certainly a miswriting of a spelling variant of jārkūn.2020, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 191...
- Synonyms:
- slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ, writo, typo, misprint
Synonyms of miswriting
Forms of miswriting
| plural | miswritings |
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Questions about miswriting
- What does miswriting mean?
- Miswriting means a miswritten word.
- What is miswriting the present participle and gerund of?
- Miswriting is the present participle and gerund of miswrite.
- What part of speech is miswriting?
- Miswriting is a noun.
- What is the plural of miswriting?
- The plural of miswriting is miswritings.
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