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The rules related to misspelling are:

• Rule IX

  2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times.

• Rule XXXV

  1. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. However, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Note owner will die.
  2. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.

So if we put all these rules together, that means that if you misspell a person's name four times on accident, that person is free from being killed from the Death Note forever. However, this does not mean you could make a person untouchable from the Death Note on purpose. The second rule from XXXV prevents this from happening. If someone purposely misspells someone else's name four times, he will kill himself and the victim will remain as is.

##Manga

The manga seems to contradict this though. We have seen Light misspelling the name of a criminal more than four times, yet that person still ended up death. So if the rules are correct, it must be that one of the first four names Light wrote down was the real name of the criminal. Although I do find this a bit of a stretch, so I'm not really sure what is going on here. Ohba did make Light write down the criminal's name more than four times, but on the other hand, there was two occasions where he mentioned misspelling (rules IX and XXXV), so I'm not completely sure what to believe here.

Wiki

The rules related to misspelling are:

• Rule IX

  2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times.

• Rule XXXV

  1. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. However, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Note owner will die.
  2. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.

So if we put all these rules together, that means that if you misspell a person's name four times on accident, that person is free from being killed from the Death Note forever. However, this does not mean you could make a person untouchable from the Death Note on purpose. The second rule from XXXV prevents this from happening. If someone purposely misspells someone else's name four times, he will kill himself and the victim will remain as is.

Manga

The manga seems to contradict this though. We have seen Light misspelling the name of a criminal more than four times, yet that person still ended up death. So if the rules are correct, it must be that one of the first four names Light wrote down was the real name of the criminal. Although I do find this a bit of a stretch, so I'm not really sure what is going on here. Ohba did make Light write down the criminal's name more than four times, but on the other hand, there was two occasions where he mentioned misspelling (rules IX and XXXV), so I'm not completely sure what to believe here.

##Wiki The related rules to misspelling are:

• rule IX

2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times.

• rule XXXV

1. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. However, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Note owner will die.
   2. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.

So if we put all these rules together that means that if you misspell a person's name four times on accident, that person is free from being killed from the Death Note forever. This does not mean, you could make a person untouchable from the Death Note on purpose. The second rule from XXXV prevents this from happening. If someone would purposely misspell someone else's name four times, he would be killed himself and the victim would remain as was before.

##Manga

The manga seems to contradict this though. We have seen Light misspell the name of a criminal more than four times, yet that person still ended up death. So if the rules are correct, it must be that one of the four names Light wrote down first was the real name of the criminal. Although I do find this a bit of a stretch. So I'm not really sure what is going on here. Ohba did make Light write down the criminal's name more than four times, but on the other hand, there was two occasions where he mentioned misspelling (rules IX and XXXV), so I'm not completely sure what to believe here.

Wiki

The rules related to misspelling are:

• Rule IX

  2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times.

• Rule XXXV

  1. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. However, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Note owner will die.
  2. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.

So if we put all these rules together, that means that if you misspell a person's name four times on accident, that person is free from being killed from the Death Note forever. However, this does not mean you could make a person untouchable from the Death Note on purpose. The second rule from XXXV prevents this from happening. If someone purposely misspells someone else's name four times, he will kill himself and the victim will remain as is.

##Manga

The manga seems to contradict this though. We have seen Light misspelling the name of a criminal more than four times, yet that person still ended up death. So if the rules are correct, it must be that one of the first four names Light wrote down was the real name of the criminal. Although I do find this a bit of a stretch, so I'm not really sure what is going on here. Ohba did make Light write down the criminal's name more than four times, but on the other hand, there was two occasions where he mentioned misspelling (rules IX and XXXV), so I'm not completely sure what to believe here.

It means, that if I want to kill Light, but I write Ligth, Lgith, Lihgt, Lighth and finally change it to Light for example, that he will not be killed by the Death Note. I'm not 100% sure and personally doubt this to be true, but to me that rule makes it sound as if Light would then become untouchable by that specific Death Note forever.

This only counts when accidentally misspelling, because we can see Light misspell a criminal's name several times, yet he still dies in the end.

##Wiki The related rules to misspelling are:

• rule IX

2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times.

• rule XXXV

1. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. However, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Note owner will die.
   2. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.

So if we put all these rules together that means that if you misspell a person's name four times on accident, that person is free from being killed from the Death Note forever. This does not mean, you could make a person untouchable from the Death Note on purpose. The second rule from XXXV prevents this from happening. If someone would purposely misspell someone else's name four times, he would be killed himself and the victim would remain as was before.

##Manga

The manga seems to contradict this though. We have seen Light misspell the name of a criminal more than four times, yet that person still ended up death. So if the rules are correct, it must be that one of the four names Light wrote down first was the real name of the criminal. Although I do find this a bit of a stretch. So I'm not really sure what is going on here. Ohba did make Light write down the criminal's name more than four times, but on the other hand, there was two occasions where he mentioned misspelling (rules IX and XXXV), so I'm not completely sure what to believe here.