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 |
|---|---|
| rettory | rettery, a place where flax is retted |
| reusabness | reusableness, with le lost |
| reuseabness | reuseableness, with le lost |
| revification | revivification |
| revocabilty | revocability |
| rewwore | rewore, w doubled |
| rewwove | rewove, w doubled |
| rillett | rillet, a little rill |
| roquellorz | roquelaure, a knee-length cloak |
| roratorio | oratorio |
| rosariia | rosaria, plural of rosarium |
| roschach | rorschach |
| rosttra | rostra |
| rubbisy | rubbishy |
| rvulsant | revulsant, a counter-irritant |
| rwound | rewound |
| saccli | sacculi, plural of sacculus |
| sacela | sacella, plural of sacellum, a small chapel |
| sachcloth | sackcloth |
| safegaurds | safeguards |
| sagitarii | sagittarii, Latin plural, archers |
| sagitarius | Sagittarius |
| salpiglosis | Salpiglossis, the painted-tongue plant |
| sanatariums | sanatoriums |
| sansculot | sansculotte |
| santification | sanctification |
| saquaro | saguaro |
| savation | salvation |
| scanic | scenic |
| scanstor | scansor, a climbing bird (stray t) |
| scapel | scalpel |
| scientintically | scientifically |
| scorchs | scorches |
| scripuralistic | scripturalistic, dropped t |
| scrotta | scrota, the plural of scrotum |
| scrunchs | scrunches |
| scypphi | scyphi, plural of scyphus, p doubled |
| secondar | secondary |
| sectuary | sectary, a member of a sect |
| secundation | fecundation (f/s OCR) |
| semblence | semblance |
| semicrystallinc | semicrystalline (final e read as c) |
| semihaness | semihardness, with rd dropped |
| semiperviness | semiperviousness, with ous dropped |
| semisirque | semicirque, a semicircular arena |
| semitraditonal | semitraditional, dropped i |
| sencio | sencion, the old name for groundsel (Senecio) |
| sensibilitiy | sensibility, transposed i |
| separte | separate, dropped a |
| septaugintal | septuagintal, of the Septuagint |
| septerium | septarium, a cracked concretion; a read for e |
| sepuchral | sepulchral, dropped l |
| seqence | sequence, dropped u |
| seqrch | search, a for q on the keyboard |
| serendite | serendibite, the borosilicate mineral of Serendib |
| serictteria | sericteria, the silk glands; extra t |
| serrulateed | serrulated, finely saw-toothed; extra e |
| servolab | servotab, the aeronautical servo-tab; t read as l |
| servulate | serrulate, finely saw-toothed |
| shakebly | shakably |
| shepperding | shepherding |
| sheppherded | shepherded |
| shivzoku | shizoku, the Japanese gentry class |
| shoulerd | shoulder, final letters transposed |
| shoval | shovel |
| shrimpi | shrimpy (y read as i) |
| shrinkerg | shrinker, with a stray g |
| shrrinkng | shrinking, r doubled and vowels dropped |
| shrups | shrubs |
| silicam | silica |
| simptico | simpatico |
| singally | signally |
| skitishly | skittishly |
| skiwies | skivvies, vv misread as w |
| skiwy | skivvy, vv misread as w |
| skullery | scullery |
| slinte | slainte, the Gaelic toast |
| sliwer | sliver, v misread as w |
| sloted | slotted |
| snaper | snapper |
| sniggoringly | sniggeringly, with o misread for e |
| snouch | smouch, to filch or to kiss; n and m confused |
| snowshoing | snowshoeing, one e dropped |
| snyaptic | synaptic, n and y transposed |
| soapi | soapy, y misread as i |
| sobersault | somersault, m misread as b |
| solach | solace, with the final ce misread as ch |
| solariia | solaria, doubled i |
| solattia | solatia, the plural of solatium; doubled t |
| soliative | spoliative, tending to despoil; the p dropped |
| solotink | solotnik, the Russian unit of weight; n and i transposed |
| solvaated | solvated, doubled a |
| sombreite | sombrerite, the phosphate rock of Sombrero Island; r dropped |
| sonantina | sonatina, a short sonata; intrusive n |
| sonnobuoy | sonobuoy, doubled n |
| soohong | soochong, a black tea; the c dropped |
| soreddia | soredia, the plural of soredium; doubled d |
| sornari | sornare, old Scots for a sorner, one who takes free quarters |
| sorroa | sorrow, the final w misread as a |
| sortlige | sortilege, divination by lots; the i and l swapped and an e lost |
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