Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
An instance of this; malaprop.