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* ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' gets this is both languages:

** The English versions initially skipped over this - the untranslated title and lack of a dub advertise its WidgetSeries status well enough (and presumably they didn't want buyers thinking they were getting an {{Engrish}}-riddled mess when the premise is [[AudienceAlienatingPremise a bit of a hard sell already]]). The subtitles for the playstation games started to show it, though. ''Shino'''v'''i Versus'' is a straight example. '''''E'''stival Versus'' could be another, but "estival" is an archaic word meaning "summery", which fits the setting perfectly - it's unknown if this was deliberate.

* ''[[VideoGame/OddWorld Abe's Oddysee]]'' had to shoehorn the word Odd in there. As did its sequel, ''Abe's Exoddus''.
* Two achievements in ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'' are named "Graet Jobb" and "Prefectionist", direct references to the InUniverse misspelled boss that you need to defeat to attain them.

** In Japanese, "Senran" is the closest thing to a misspelling as kanji can get - it's two characters that stand for things that make perfect sense in context, but form a gibberish word when compounded.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Hellstorm}}'' the central character is named Daimon Hellstrom. When he set up office as an OccultDetective, the signwriter misspelled the name on his door as "Hellstorm Investigations". Daimon liked it and decided to keep it.

* ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo''.

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* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Both words in the title are spelled incorrectly, as the eponymous group uses them as their name.

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* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', the 2009 Tarantino film, contains a group called the "Basterds", but Tarantino has refused to explain the title further than that, saying, "You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place." In all likelihood, the reason for this is because [[WritingAroundTrademarks there's already a movie called "The Inglorious Bastards"]].
* ''Film/ThePursuitOfHappyness'', whose title is taken from a misspelling on a day-care mural.
* ''Charly'', the film version of ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. (This is odd, since in the book, Charlie ''can'' spell his own name, even before his increase in intelligence.)
* Inverted with ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The character Betelgeuse's name is always seen spelled correctly, to the point that a character mispronounces it while trying to read it aloud. The title of the film spells it phonetically so that viewers will be able to pronounce it "correctly" ''before'' seeing the film. Interestingly the star Betelgeuse isn't pronounce "Beetlejuice" in real life, but "Be-Tal-Gys," with a hard G.
* The Spanish film ''El crimen ferpecto'' translates to "The Ferpect Crime." The film is about a meticulous man trying to plan a perfect crime to the last detail. In an attempt to get GenreSavvy, he rents a bunch of crime flicks and notices that one of the titles has a typo: ''El crimen ferpecto.'' He's quite upset because he can't afford to make any such errors. The film was released in English-speaking countries as ''The Perfect Crime'', averting the trope.
* ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo''.
* ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'': This is how the title of Casey's final paper is spelled (it should be "Dummies").
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* ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}'' has an episode titled "La mort le roy Artu", a mangled ye olde French of "KingArthur's death" or "Death and KingArthur", based on the equally mispelled (to modern appearances) ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur''. It's also intentionally misleading, since the episode is about Kaamelott's priest selling guided tours of Arthur's tomb to raise money, which Arthur only finds out about when he's dismissively introduced to the tour group as Lancelot's squire.

* Advertisements for John Zacherle's new show ''Zacherle at Large'' erroneously amended a "y" to the end of his name, and Zacherle's HorrorHost persona has been known as Creator/Zacherley ever since.

* The Polish animated series ''Włatcy móch'' (a misspelling of "Władcy much", i.e. ''[[Literature/LordOfTheFlies Lords of the Flies]]''.)

** The English versions initially skipped over this - the untranslated title and TooLongDidntDub advertise its WidgetSeries status well enough (and presumably they didn't want buyers thinking they were getting an {{Engrish}}-riddled mess when the premise is [[AudienceAlienatingPremise a bit of a hard sell already]]). The subtitles for the playstation games started to show it, though. ''Shino'''v'''i Versus'' is a straight example. '''''E'''stival Versus'' could be another, but "estival" is an archaic word meaning "summery", which fits the setting perfectly - it's unknown if this was deliberate.

* An in-universe example in ''Literature/Discworld'', where in an early example a poorly-spelled wish results in someone spinning straw into Glod (i.e. a grumpy dwarf instead of the precious material); and later books reveal that generations of dwarves have stuck with the name, e.g. horn player Glod Glodsson.

* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' strip from 1993, UsefulNotes/DanQuayle announces the opening of the "Dan Quayle Center and Liberry" ([[DontExplainTheJoke the joke being]] that he can't spell).

* ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''.

* ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols''.
* Likewise, Music/{{Nirvana}}'s album ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''. Part of Kurt Cobain's motivation was the wrong spelling!

Not to be confused with TyopOnTheCover, when the misspelling occurs on accident. Also compare XtremeKoolLetterz and FunetikAksent.

* VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing has an area called "The Misspelled Cemetary", apparently as a nod to the Stephen King novel. Monsters encountered here include zobmies, ghuols, and skleltons.

* Surfbort is meant to be"surfboard" in a FunetikAcksent. They've said their name is meant as a {{Music/Beyonce}} ShoutOut, since she pronounces the word that way in "Drunk In Love".

* One of the [[UsefulNotes/CuisinesInAmerica characteristic dishes]] of [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis, Minnesota]] is a hamburger with a slice of cheese [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot stuck inside the patty]], such that the cheese will melt into a runny liquid in the meat-chamber created for it and squirt and scald you if you're not careful. Like many American local dishes, two competing restaurants claim to have invented/perfected it, and one of the places claims that the reason you know that it's the real inventor because it's spelled wrong on their menu: They call this burger the "Jucy Lucy" (unlike their competition, which calls it the "Juicy Lucy"). This difference has been recognized by the competitors; the place that spells it "Juicy" has T-shirts that read "If it's spelled right, it's done right," while the place that spells it "Jucy" has advertising that reads, "If it's spelled right, [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion you are eating a shameless rip-off!]]"