I was having an email conversation with friends about glyphosate. One friend consistently misspelled the word as glyphosphate*. In order to bring this to his attention, I replied, "It's spelled glyphosate, not glyphosphate." After typing this, my phone auto-corrected glyphosphate to glyphosate. I then had to manually type in the extra letters to misspell the word in the manner that my friend had been misspelling it.
Is there a word that would describe this action succinctly? I had in mind,
I had to uncorrect the spelling of glyphosate,
but the meaning is unrelated to this scenario, and incorrect is only used as an adjective.
- Yes, I'm (now) aware that glyphosphate is an acceptable alternate spelling of the word, albeit much less common.