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 |
|---|---|
| swiwet | swivet, with v misread as w |
| sylid | syllid, an annelid worm of the Syllidae |
| sylistically | stylistically |
| sympossia | symposia |
| symtomology | symptomology, with the p dropped |
| synchondoses | synchondroses, with the r dropped |
| synechdochism | synecdochism, taking the part for the whole |
| synoetic | synoecic, with c misread as t |
| synonomous | synonymous |
| synonomously | synonymously |
| syntactially | syntactically |
| syodicon | synodicon, a book of synodal decrees |
| syrringed | syringed, r doubled |
| syrringing | syringing, r doubled |
| taennin | tannin, with a stray e |
| tailge | taigle (Scots, to hinder), g and l transposed |
| tailsman | talisman, l and i transposed |
| tamenes | tameness, final s dropped |
| tanega | fanega, Spanish grain measure, f read as t |
| tangentally | tangentially |
| tapesium | trapesium (trapezium), r dropped |
| tapetta | tapeta, plural of tapetum, t doubled |
| tapinceophalism | tapinocephalism, c and o transposed |
| tapperer | taperer, a taper-bearer, p doubled |
| tarentala | tarentula, older spelling of tarantula |
| tarpaulian | tarpaulin |
| tarryiest | tarriest |
| tatther | tatter |
| tavestock | Tavistock, the Devon town |
| tbssaraglot | tessaraglot, in four languages |
| teetaller | teetotaller, with -to- dropped |
| telencephalla | telencephala, plural of telencephalon |
| telpath | telepath, with the second e dropped |
| tenticle | tentacle |
| terap | teraph, a household idol (cf. teraphim) |
| terephthallic | terephthalic, with l doubled |
| terraquedus | terraqueous, with o misread as d |
| terrariia | terraria, plural of terrarium, with i doubled |
| terrariiums | terrariums, with i doubled |
| territorality | territoriality |
| teschermacherite | teschemacherite, an ammonium bicarbonate mineral |
| tetracadactylity | tetradactylity (having four digits), with a stray -ca- |
| tetrachical | tetrarchical |
| tetrafluouride | tetrafluoride, with a stray u |
| tetrsyllabical | tetrasyllabical, with the a dropped |
| thapes | shapes, with s read as t |
| theatticalism | theatricalism, with r misread as t |
| thencefoward | thenceforward |
| theomammomist | theomammonist, one serving both God and Mammon |
| theorizies | theorizes |
| theraputant | therapeutant, a therapeutic agent |
| thiobaccilli | thiobacilli, the sulphur bacteria |
| thiogycolic | thioglycolic, as in thioglycolic acid |
| tholli | tholi, the plural of tholus, a dome |
| thorascope | thoracoscope, an endoscope for the chest |
| thorocopagous | thoracopagous, joined at the thorax |
| throroughly | thoroughly |
| thyrisiferous | thyrsiferous, bearing a thyrse |
| thyrold | thyroid |
| timorousnous | timorousness |
| tinerer | tinkerer |
| titeration | titration |
| titmmice | titmice |
| tobaccosim | tobaccoism, the is/si transposed |
| toerless | toeless |
| toist | foist, f read as t in the scan |
| torrefacation | torrefaction |
| totalitizer | totalizer |
| tradevman | tradesman |
| trady | tardy, the r and a transposed |
| trafflicker | trafficker |
| tranfd | transfd, for transf'd (transferred), s dropped |
| tranmissibility | transmissibility |
| transcience | transience |
| transexperiental | transexperiential |
| transpenisular | transpeninsular |
| transversan | transversal |
| treetise | treatise |
| tremeline | tremelline, of the jelly fungus Tremella |
| tremenousness | tremendousness |
| tricophorous | trichophorous, bearing hairs |
| triduam | triduum, a period of three days |
| trieennia | triennia, the plural of triennium |
| triennias | triennials |
| trifanious | trifarious, facing three ways |
| trifluouride | trifluoride |
| trifornia | triforia, the plural of triforium |
| trilium | trillium (one l dropped) |
| triolcous | trioicous (bryology), i misread as l |
| trisylabic | trisyllabic (one l dropped) |
| triweekliess | triweeklies (extra s) |
| trocaical | trochaical (h dropped) |
| troublesshot | troubleshot (extra s) |
| trusteing | trusteeing (an e dropped) |
| tuberuculate | tuberculate |
| tulipi | tulip |
| tumidily | tumidly |
| turgoid | turgid |
| turnbout | turnabout |
| turpantineweed | turpentine-weed, with turpentine misspelt |
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