"back-spelling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Eric Gerald Stanley, “Late Copies of Anglo-Saxon Charters”, in Studies in English Language & Literature: \"doubt Wisely\" : Papers in Honour of E.G. Stanley, page 55",
          "text": "For example, in D and w, e is a possible reflex for OE y: (29) cysan, presumably a back-spelling for cesen < ceosen, and (40) hylle, a back-spelling for helle.",
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          "ref": "1997, Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change, page 63",
          "text": "Another very important type is hypercorrect or inverse spelling (Rückschreibung, backspelling). Here a segment that has been lost or altered is spelled in the 'wrong' environment, suggesting that the writer knows that some words have it by convention, but not precisely which.",
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          "text": "The absence of the epenthetic consonant in ⲖⲈⲬⲞⲨⲬⲞⲨⲘⲈⲢⲈ lekhukhumere seems to reflect a phenomenon of backspelling.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈbækˌspɛlɪŋ/"
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