back-spelling

短语

发音

/ˈbækˌspɛlɪŋ/

别名

backspelling

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    Modern English numb is a back-spelling, because this word never had a /b/ in it. The back-spelling is based on words such as lamb, which had once ended in /b/, but where this sound was lost and the letter b became silent.

词源

From back + spelling.

来源：wiktionary