... if your misspelled word creates a new word that's incorrect in use but correct in spelling.
Like when you wrote that, many kids runway from problems they are having at home.
Uh, didja mean, "run away?"
Luckily for this person, this was not a fatal since it wasn't inside a quote and it didn't change the meaning of what you said (since something that is completely non-sensical doesn't change a meaning; it just confuses the crap out of a reader).
Don't trust spell check as a sole means of proofing your work. Use spell check and review your story line-by-line to make sure you have the correct word usage and good grammar and have no inconsistencies that may tip off a fatal, and check your story fact-by-fact to make sure you don't have any errors anywhere in the use of names or titles or numbers or statistics.
Do all of that. Not just one or two of the steps. Every time. No exceptions.
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