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 |
|---|---|
| souamosa | squamosa, scaly; q misread as o |
| souamula | squamula, a small scale; q misread as o |
| soudge | squdge, to squelch; q misread as o, as in soueak for squeak |
| soudgy | squdgy, squelchy; the same q for o misreading |
| soueak | squeak, q misread as o |
| soueege | squeege, an old form of squeegee; q misread as o |
| soundheartednes | soundheartedness, the final s dropped |
| soushy | squshy, a variant of squushy; q misread as o |
| souush | squush, to squash or squelch; q misread as o |
| souushy | squushy, squelchy; q misread as o |
| spadiard | Spaniard |
| sparch | sparth, a long-handled battle-axe; c misread for t |
| specsartine | spessartine, the manganese garnet |
| specttra | spectra |
| spelbinding | spellbinding |
| spelbound | spellbound |
| speramtozoon | spermatozoon |
| spergillum | aspergillum, the watering-pot shell |
| spermashion | spermation, respelled after its pronunciation |
| spermatozoio | spermatozoic, final c misread as o |
| spermatozzoa | spermatozoa |
| spermogonnia | spermogonia |
| spetrophoby | spectrophoby, dread of mirrors; c dropped |
| sphaeripium | sphaeridium, the spherical body of a sea urchin |
| spitscocked | spitchcocked, of an eel split and broiled |
| splashs | splashes |
| splender | splendor |
| spninx | sphinx |
| spninxes | sphinxes |
| spotteldy | spottedly, d and l transposed |
| spuries | spurries, plural of spurry |
| spurluous | superfluous; -luous ends no other English word, and sup- misread as sp- with the f lost leaves exactly this |
| stamindia | staminodia, the o dropped |
| stapedez | stapedes, the Latin plural of stapes |
| staplf | staple, final e misread as f |
| startor | starter |
| stauropgia | stauropegia, a house under the patriarch's cross |
| steaakhouse | steakhouse, with a doubled a |
| steeadying | steadying, with an extra e |
| stema | stemma, a garland, ocellus or pedigree |
| stenchion | stanchion |
| stenia | sthenia, morbid strength, with the h dropped |
| stenobragmatic | stenobregmatic, having a narrow bregma |
| stentoraphonic | stentorophonic, loud-voiced |
| sternna | sterna, the plural of sternum, with a doubled n |
| stogeies | stogies, cheap cigars |
| stomatitus | stomatitis, inflammation of the mouth |
| straightfoward | straightforward |
| strophanhin | strophanthin |
| stubiest | stubbiest |
| stubornly | stubbornly |
| stucturelessness | structurelessness |
| stultioquy | stultiloquy |
| stultloquent | stultiloquent |
| styldia | stylidia, plural of stylidium |
| stylli | styli |
| suavastika | sauvastika, the left handed swastika |
| subapprobatiness | subapprobativeness, ve dropped before -ness |
| subcincttoria | subcinctoria, the papal vestments, with t doubled |
| subclei | subnuclei with the nu dropped; the same source list also carries proclei for pronuclei and nucleclei for nuclei, so this family of forms is corrupt |
| subcript | subscript |
| subencephaltic | subencephalic, with a stray t |
| subextensibness | subextensibleness, le dropped before -ness |
| subhirsuness | subhirsuteness, te dropped before -ness |
| sublavius | subclavius, the muscle, with the c dropped |
| subphylla | subphyla |
| subradicness | subradicalness, with the -al- dropped in setting |
| subssellia | subsellia (Latin benches), with s doubled |
| substanially | substantially |
| succesive | successive |
| succintorium | succinctorium, the papal girdle vestment |
| suguaro | saguaro |
| sulphopupuric | sulphopurpuric, an r dropped |
| sulphouinic | sulphovinic, v read as u |
| sulphurious | sulphureous, the e read as i |
| sulphurou | sulphurous, final s dropped |
| sumptious | sumptuous |
| sundek | sundeck |
| sunglo | sunglow, final w dropped |
| superaffiuence | superaffluence, the fl ligature lost |
| superannate | superannuate |
| superannated | superannuated |
| superaveraness | superaverageness, the ge dropped |
| superinsscribed | superinscribed, s doubled |
| superinsscribing | superinscribing, s doubled |
| superpossition | superposition |
| superstructral | superstructural |
| superterrestial | superterrestrial |
| suporvisory | supervisory |
| suppresion | suppression |
| suppresive | suppressive |
| suprasphanoidal | suprasphenoidal |
| suprerogative | supererogative |
| supressed | suppressed |
| suprising | surprising |
| suption | suction |
| supulchre | sepulchre |
| sustanedly | sustainedly |
| swaggir | swagger |
| swallo | swallow |
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