A testy exchange over the situation in Aleppo at Sunday night's presidential debate resulted in a flood of online queries for the besieged Syrian city.

Unfortunately, many of those queries went unsatisfied because they misspelled “Aleppo.”

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According to leading online dictionary Merriam-Webster, Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s statement that Aleppo had already fallen sent voters rushing to the site to look up what the GOP nominee was talking about.

But the majority of those interested in learning more may have come away disappointed because they were typing “lepo” instead.

"Note that more people are looking up 'lepo-' (as in, 'what's a lepo?') than ‘Aleppo,’” the dictionary tweeted during the second presidential debate.

Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson Gary Earl JohnsonWhat the numbers say about Trump's chances at reelection Presidential race tightens in Minnesota as Trump plows resources into state The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden condemns violence, blames Trump for fomenting it l Bitter Mass. primaries reach the end l Super PAC spending set to explode MORE famously coined the phrase “Aleppo moment” after he exposed his unfamiliarity with the city during an interview on MSNBC.

Johnson later pushed back against criticism, saying that he couldn’t start a war with a country he couldn’t find on a map.