Error Words
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A word that lost its accents instead of having them converted.
Sometimes the whole letter goes with them. htel is hôtel, dcor is décor, crpe is crêpe, debcle is débâcle.
The same thing happens to æ and œ. anmia is anæmia with the æ deleted, not a misspelling of the modern anemia.
471 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | With the accents back |
|---|---|
| lokiec | łokieć, Polish ell measure |
| luiseno | Luiseño, California native people |
| maconne | maconne (heraldry, masoned) |
| madroa | madrona, the tree Arbutus menziesii |
| malaguea | malaguena, Spanish dance and song |
| malgr | malgre, French 'in spite of' |
| mananas | mananas, Spanish mananas |
| manquee | manquee, French manque(e) |
| marechale | maréchale |
| matelass | matelassé |
| matellasse | matelassé |
| mechant | méchant |
| medisance | médisance |
| mesalliances | mésalliances |
| mesange | mésange, French titmouse |
| mesteno | mesteño (Spanish, mustang) |
| meuniere | meunière |
| meurtriere | meurtrière, loophole in a fortification |
| mimbreno | Mimbreño, an Apache band |
| mlange | melange |
| mnage | menage |
| mordore | mordoré, reddish brown |
| mouill | mouille, palatalized (phonetics) |
| mousme | mousme (Japanese musume, a girl) |
| moutoneed | moutonneed, glacially rounded |
| moutonnee | moutonnee, glacially smoothed (rock) |
| msalliance | mesalliance |
| mtier | metier |
| nanigo | ñáñigo, Afro-Cuban secret society member |
| napead | napæad, nymph of the wooded dells |
| navely | naïvely |
| naveness | naïveness |
| navete | naïveté |
| navety | naïvety |
| neglig | négligé (accented letters dropped) |
| nonremanie | nonremanié (French remanié, reworked) |
| nouveaute | nouveauté |
| nouveautes | nouveautés |
| osperm | oösperm |
| osphere | oösphere |
| ospore | oöspore |
| outr | outré |
| panetiere | panetiere with grave accent, French shepherd's pouch |
| panuelo | panuelo with tilde, Spanish handkerchief |
| panuelos | panuelos with tilde, Spanish handkerchiefs |
| papelonne | papelonne with acute accent, heraldic scaled |
| parabien | parabién (Spanish, congratulation) |
| paraiba | Paraíba, Brazilian state and river |
| patacao | patacão |
| paveed | pavéed, set with pavé stones |
| pensees | pensées |
| perichtia | perichætia |
| petroleuse | pétroleuse |
| pimenton | pimentón |
| pinuela | piñuela |
| piqu | piqué |
| pltano | platano |
| pointille | pointille (French, dotted work) |
| porkolt | pörkölt, Hungarian stew |
| porteno | porteño, native of Buenos Aires |
| precieuse | précieuse |
| prefet | préfet |
| preparateur | préparateur |
| prevot | prévôt, a French provost |
| prevotal | prévôtal, of a provost's court |
| proneur | proneur, French for an extoller or puffer |
| provencalize | Provençalize |
| quiteno | Quiteño, a native of Quito |
| rchauff | réchauffé |
| rclame | réclame |
| recercele | recercelé |
| recercelee | recercelée |
| recherch | recherché |
| relache | relâche |
| repondez | répondez, as in répondez s'il vous plaît |
| repouss | repoussé |
| resarcelee | resarcelée, heraldry, of a voided cross |
| reseau | réseau, a net or grid |
| reseaus | réseaus |
| reseaux | réseaux |
| resistante | résistante, French feminine of résistant |
| resistantes | résistantes |
| retrouss | retroussé, turned up at the tip |
| revetement | revêtement, a facing for a wall |
| rfound | rēfound (refound), the marked vowel dropped |
| rfree | rēfree (re-free), the marked vowel dropped |
| rgen | marked vowel dropped, as in rfound, rgisseur, rglement |
| rgisseur | régisseur |
| rglement | règlement |
| rigsmal | Rigsmål, the Dano-Norwegian standard tongue |
| riksmal | Riksmål, the Norwegian literary standard |
| risqu | risqué |
| risquee | risquée |
| rmoulade | rémoulade |
| ronier | rônier, the African fan palm |
| rontgenism | rontgenism for Roentgen work with X-rays (Rontgen) |
| rontgenize | rontgenize, to treat with X-rays (Rontgen) |
| rontgenized | rontgenized (Rontgen) |
| rontgenizing | rontgenizing (Rontgen) |
| rontgenographic | rontgenographic (Rontgen) |
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