Verb
(third-person singular simple present wan’ts, present participle wan’ting, simple past and past participle wan’ted)
- Common misspelling of want.
Origin
Misspelt by confusion with words formed with the enclitic n’t.
Verb
- Common misspelling of won’t.
Origin
Misspelt possibly by pronunciatory disanalogy with wonder–wander — whose first syllables are pronounced, respectively, wŭn and wŏn — the latter being closer to the pronunciation of won’t: wōnt.
