misspeller

English

Etymology

misspell +‎ -er

Noun

misspeller (plural misspellers)

1. One who spells incorrectly.
   • 2005, John Holt, The Underachieving School, page 63:

     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.

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

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