Misspelt vs Heterographic - What's the difference?
misspelt | heterographic | Synonyms |
Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
(linguistics) Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
* 2000 , Po-Ching Yip, The Chinese Lexicon: A Comprehensive Survey? , page 16
* 2008 , Elena L. Grigorenko & Adam J. Naples, Single-word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives''?, page 140
Misspelt is a synonym of heterographic.
As a verb misspelt
is (misspell).As an adjective heterographic is
misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.heterographic
English
Adjective
(-)- In English. many letters are heterographic .
- Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
- English has few such heterophonic homographs, hence much of the work in English (and French) examining orthography-phonology consistency effects at the whole-word level has focused on heterographic homophones.