miswrit

English

Etymology 1

Verb

miswrit

1. (obsolete) past participle of miswrite

Etymology 2

Noun

miswrit (plural miswrits)

1. (rare) That which is incorrectly written or transcribed; a typo
   • 1908, Supplement to Court Leet Records, volume 1:

     The spellings in ī represent Old French ē², and if they are not miswrits show merely the tendency to exaggerate the ē beginning of the diphthong ei which was the beginning of that sound.

   • 2012, Eiríkr Magnússon, Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic:

     […] which seems more likely to be a thoughtless scribal repetition of the preceding var, than a miswrit for vart, varla or varlega scarcely.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmis.wriːt/, [ˈmiz.wriːt]

Verb

miswrīt

1. inflection of miswrītan:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. singular imperative