spelling error
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspellinganderror
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spelling
noun
uk/ˈspel.ɪŋ/us/ˈspel.ɪŋ/
forming words with the correct letters in the correct order, or the ability to ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈer.ər/us/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition ofspellinganderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspelling error
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However, reliance on letter names may lead to a particularspellingerror, namely, spelling the word with the single letter that is a letter name.
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Any word that cannot be confirmed in this step thus appears unrelated to its context, and might therefore be a real-wordspellingerror.
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The third reason is that no difference in thespellingerrorpatterns was observed in first and second graders.
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As discussed earlier, the use of data from other tasks to supplementspellingerrordata has been a positive feature of the narrow approach.
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Broadspellingerrorcategories such as vowel errors, consonant errors or doubling errors tend not to be very informative about context sensitive spelling knowledge.
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Whilst most users can be expected to be able to recognise aspellingerroronce it is flagged, this is not necessarily the case for grammar errors.
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The single missed retrieval was due to aspellingerror, and the two false retrievals were due to bugs in the text processor which have since been fixed.
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Thisspellingerroris now widely used, causing confusion.
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The fact that this was a commonspellingerrorsuggests that word-final had become silent.
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To take the latter first, base lists must have been proofread to remove systematic typos and spelling errors.
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This is not petty criticism of typos or spelling errors, but reference to a certain lack of precision throughout the volume.
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The name given to it after the discovery was the striped goat, but due to a reporter'sspellingerror, the goat was known as the peacock goat.
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Spelling errors in the participants' responses were disregarded.
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Corruption rules are intended to simulate typographical or spelling errors.
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Visual and phonological spelling errors in subtypes of children with learning disabilities.
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Spelling errors as a window on variations in phonological deficits among students with dyslexia.
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The employee's correction restores the intended semantic content in addition to correcting spelling errors.
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A diligent copy-edit and proofing would have caught the grammatical and spelling errors.
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Additional scoring of the spelling responses was carried out to analyze spelling errors.
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