misspeller

plural misspellers

1. One who spells incorrectly.

   One of the reasons that dialect verse was automatically taken as humorous was the success of the great misspellers.

   2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 364

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   We treat a misspelled word like a crime and penalize the misspeller severely; many teachers talk of making children develop a “spelling conscience,” and fail otherwise excellent papers because of a few spelling mistakes.

   2005, John Holt, The Underachieving School, page 63