Three quick eyeball checks before doing full verification:

Length

Exactly 56 characters before the .onion suffix. Not 55, not 57. If your paste is a different length, either you copied wrong or the address is malformed.

Character set

Lowercase letters a to z and digits 2 to 7. No uppercase, no 0, 1, 8, 9, no punctuation. Anything outside this set means the address is not a valid v3 onion.

Prefix

Current WeTheNorth addresses use a consistent prefix chosen by the operator. Compare the first several characters of your address against the reference. Any deviation is a signal.

These are eyeball checks, not verification

An address passing all three still needs to be checked against the current signed rotation before you type a password on it. But an address failing any of them is guaranteed wrong.