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A condition in which someone consistently writes words and phrases incorrectly; distinct from Illiteracy in that a malliterate person can read and write but simply gets words and phrases wrong. Malliteracy usually occurs when a person writes words and phrases he or she has only heard but never read, such as: 1. Alot (instead of "a lot.") 2. Alright (instead of "all right.") 3. One in the same (instead of "one and the same.") 4. Pacifically (instead of, "specifically.") 5. Dominate (used as an adjective instead of "dominant.") 6. Volumptuous (instead of "voluptuous.") (As an aside, if you read an online dating profile from a woman and she uses both of those last two words in the same profile, the odds are extremely high that she's under 5'5" tall and weighs over 300 lbs)
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