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wreck havoc

wreck havoc is the misspelling of wreak havoc.

Meaning of wreak havoc

Verb

wreak havoc (third-person singular simple present wreaks havoc, present participle wreaking havoc, simple past and past participle wreaked havoc or wrought havoc)

  1. To cause damage, disruption, or destruction.
    • The storm wreaked havoc on his garden.

Origin of wreck havoc

Confusion of common wreck with uncommon wreak, both with similar meanings of destruction and similar etymological origins.

Questions about wreck havoc

What is wreck havoc the misspelling of?
Wreck havoc is the misspelling of wreak havoc.

Words near wreck havoc in the dictionary

  1. wreck
  2. wreck car
  3. wreck cars
  4. wreck grab
  5. wreck grabs
  6. wreck havoc
  7. wreck of the Hesperus
  8. wreck shop
  9. wreck the hoose juice
  10. wreck yard
  11. wreck yards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wreck havoc (page history and authors); wreak havoc (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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