back-spelling
back-spelling · back-spellings
An unetymological, often hypercorrect, spelling of a word created by analogy with…An unetymological, often hypercorrect, spelling of a word created by analogy with other words which (usually through loss of a sound or its phonetic merger with other sounds) have become similar to it.
/ˈbækˌspɛlɪŋ/
Meaning
1 sensesAn unetymological, often hypercorrect, spelling of a word created by analogy with other words which (usually through loss of a sound or its phonetic merger with other sounds) have become similar to it.
Origin
From back + spelling.From back + spelling.
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