Error Words
This one is a judgement call.
A misspelling where we worked out the word that was meant.
Almost all of them are plain slips of the finger, and they stand out because the word underneath is perfectly ordinary. A letter dropped (programmng, direcly, adminstration), a letter too many (availabile), two letters swapped (contineu), or a finger landing on the next key over (brainwashjng, flarfish for flatfish). Nearly always a single character out of place.
A handful are stranger than that. Somewhere in the list's history it was read off a printed page, and f, t and s collapse into each other in a bad scan, three narrow letters with two of them crossbarred. So abstertion is abstersion, not abstention, and fwelling is swelling. It runs both ways: oversness is overtness. Run ,dictionary for where the list came from.
We check dates too. absoil cannot be abseil, because abseiling did not exist when the entry was printed.
1,859 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 | What we think it is |
|---|---|
| preincination | preinclination |
| premillenial | premillennial |
| premonetory | premonitory |
| preventtoria | preventoria, plural of preventorium |
| prich | pritch, a pointed tool |
| primordality | primordiality |
| prlate | prelate |
| proagule | propagule |
| probabl | probable |
| procotols | protocols |
| profanchise | profranchise (pro- + franchise) |
| profitters | profiters, those who profit |
| programmng | programming |
| promissvry | promissory |
| propagulla | propagula, plural of propagulum |
| proposterously | preposterously |
| proslyted | proselyted |
| proslyting | proselyting |
| protoypes | prototypes |
| protozzoa | protozoa |
| protragie | protragic (OCR c read as e) |
| protthalli | prothalli (doubled t) |
| proxically | proximally |
| proxysm | paroxysm |
| pruigo | prurigo |
| psend | pseud- (OCR u read as n) |
| pseudoacaccia | pseudoacacia |
| pseudobchia | pseudobranchia (letters dropped) |
| pseudococtate | pseudocostate (falsely ribbed) |
| pseudocommisural | pseudocommissural |
| pssimistical | pessimistical |
| psychopanychite | psychopannychite (believer in soul-sleep) |
| publicute | publicate (obsolete, to make public) |
| pufftn | puffin (OCR i read as t) |
| pulvinni | pulvini (plural of pulvinus) |
| pupilloscoptic | pupilloscopic |
| purportes | purports |
| pyche | psyche |
| pyrogentic | pyrogenetic |
| pyrollogical | pyrological |
| quarternion | quaternion |
| quaterion | quaternion |
| quaters | quarters |
| queing | queuing |
| quininiazation | quininization |
| quintescence | quintessence |
| quodlibetz | quodlibets |
| racallable | recallable |
| rackateer | racketeer |
| rackateering | racketeering |
| ranomer | ransomer (dropped s) |
| ranomers | ransomers (dropped s) |
| raptury | rapture |
| rariety | rarity |
| raticocinator | ratiocinator (extra c) |
| raveinelike | ravine-like (raveine for ravine) |
| rbound | rebound (dropped e) |
| rchitect | architect (dropped a) |
| reaccomodated | reaccommodated (single m) |
| reacuaintance | reacquaintance (dropped q) |
| readaptiness | readaptiveness (dropped ve) |
| rearanged | rearranged (single r) |
| rearanging | rearranging (single r) |
| reasearch | research (extra a) |
| reasonlessured | reassured, with reass- swollen to reasonless- |
| reasonlessuring | reassuring, with reass- swollen to reasonless- |
| rebbred | rebred (extra b) |
| recchose | rechose (doubled c) |
| recchosen | rechosen (doubled c) |
| receivablness | receivableness (dropped e) |
| recommiting | recommitting (single t) |
| reconciliatiory | reconciliatory (extra i) |
| redemptine | redemptive; the archaic spelling redemptiue misread, u as n |
| redistillabness | redistillableness, the le dropped |
| reffelt | refelt, with the f doubled |
| reffroze | refroze, with the f doubled |
| reffrozen | refrozen, with the f doubled |
| reformatness | reformativeness with the ive dropped, cf. the entry above it |
| regioide | regicide, the c read as o |
| regnerable | regenerable, an e dropped |
| regulatris | regulatrix, the final x read as s |
| rekinole | rekindle, the d read as o |
| releivo | relievo, the ie transposed |
| releivos | relievos, the ie transposed |
| reliiant | reliant, the i doubled |
| repetatively | repetitively |
| representationes | representations |
| reptilferous | reptiliferous, bearing reptile remains |
| repudative | repudiative |
| resentationally | representationally |
| resentfullness | resentfulness |
| residiuum | residuum |
| residuua | residua, plural of residuum |
| resinfiable | resinifiable |
| resoutive | resolutive |
| resshot | reshot, with s doubled |
| resumeing | resuming |
| retled | retiled, with the i lost |
| retling | retiling, with the i lost |
| retroplexed | retroflexed |
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