OTHER DICTIONARIES BY ESTEFALU:
Miswrite
Verb
Etymology: it is the verb write, to which mis- (amiss, badly, wrongly) is prefixed.
Third-person singular simple present: miswrites
Indicative past: miswrote
Past participle: miswritten
Present participle: miswritting.
Transitively:
To write amiss or incorrectly; to commit a mistake in writing (a letter, a word, a sign, etc.).
Equivalent periphrases in other idioms: escribir mal, in Spanish; écrire mal, in French; scrivere male, in Italian.
Twice she miswrote a word and had to start over again. Jude Deveraux (The Awakening)
[Tess] continued to fail tests either because she misread the directions or because she miswrote her answers. Barbara Delinsky (The Vineyard)
[¶] The paragraph sign is both a mark of emphasis and the sixth of the reference marks. It is actually “P” reversed (left for right, and white for black) to distinguish it from that character. Clemens, however, commonly miswrote it as a “P”. Mark Twain (Mark Twain Letters)
On the second page, she [Emily Dickinson] miswrote “indeed” as “inded” but neatly added a second “e” and continued. Emili Dickinson (The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson)
Like Cuneiform, Machine Language is made of many identical elements, tedious to write and easily miswritten. Leonard Michaels – Christopher B. Ricks (The State of the Language)
Numbers may, […], not only be misread but miswritten. John Milsom (Field Geophysics)
Absolutely, with no direct object:
My lady, either the king miswrote or you misread. Norah Lofts (The Concubine)
English vocables derived from, or compounded with, write: writ (noun, verb), writ-charter, writ-proof, writ-reader, writ-reading, writability, writable, writative, write (noun, verb), writeable, write-back, write-down, writee, write-in, write-off, writer, writeress, writerling, writerly, writership, write-up, writing, writing-board, writing-book, writing-box, writing-desk, writing-master, writing-paper, writing-pen, writing-table, writter, unwritten, unwrite, unwriteable, unwriting, fore-write, fore-written, handwrite (noun, verb), handwriting, bewrite, penwrite, rewrite (noun, verb), rewriter, rewriting, underwrite, underwriting, underwriter, underwriting, underwritten.
