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 |
|---|---|
| tushs | tushes |
| tympanam | tympanum |
| typeseting | typesetting |
| ubiquious | ubiquitous |
| ubound | unbound |
| umberima | uberrima (Latin, richest, as in uberrima fides); ub- keyed as umb- and one r lost, exactly as its list neighbour uberty became umberty |
| umberty | uberty (fruitfulness); ub- keyed as umb-, cf. umberima |
| umimpeded | unimpeded |
| umload | unload |
| ummps | mumps, with m and u transposed |
| umouhile | umquhile (archaic, formerly); qu misread as ou |
| umppired | umpired |
| umppiring | umpiring |
| umset | unset |
| umteen | umpteen |
| unabsorptiness | unabsorptiveness, with ve dropped |
| unacclaimate | unacclimated; acclaim- keyed for acclim- |
| unadaptabness | unadaptableness, with le dropped |
| unanalagous | unanalogous |
| unanalagously | unanalogously |
| unanalagousness | unanalogousness |
| unautoritied | unauthoritied, dropped h |
| unbrittness | unbrittleness, dropped le |
| uncatholcity | uncatholicity, dropped i |
| uncertifiablely | uncertifiably, stray le before -ly |
| uncircumstantialy | uncircumstantially, dropped l |
| uncommones | uncommonest, final t dropped |
| uncomprehened | uncomprehended, d dropped |
| unconsiderablely | unconsiderably |
| uncontestablely | uncontestably |
| uncontradictablely | uncontradictably |
| unconvenial | uncongenial, g misread as v |
| uncorrectablely | uncorrectably |
| undelylene | undecylene, the C11 olefin; c misread as l |
| underffed | underfed, f doubled |
| undergos | undergoes |
| underorseman | underhorseman, h lost; a mine horsekeeper |
| undersshot | undershot, s doubled |
| uneated | uneaten, or possibly unheated with the h dropped |
| uneffeness | uneffeteness, with -te- lost in setting |
| unembarassed | unembarrassed |
| unexchangeabness | unexchangeableness, with -le- dropped |
| unexcitablely | unexcitably, mute e wrongly kept before -ly |
| unffroze | unfroze, f doubled |
| unfingured | unfingered |
| unfrutuosity | unfructuosity (unfruitfulness), c dropped |
| unfusibness | unfusibleness, le dropped |
| ungeuntarium | unguentarium, a vessel for unguents; ue transposed |
| ungeuntary | unguentary, belonging to unguents; ue transposed |
| unhappi | unhappy |
| unhygenic | unhygienic, dropped i |
| unintialized | uninitialized, dropped i |
| unintrlined | uninterlined, dropped e |
| universalisties | universalities, with an s slipped in |
| unltraconservative | ultraconservative, n slipped into ultra |
| unmolified | unmollified, one l dropped |
| unnibbied | unnibbled, the l misread as an i |
| unopressible | unoppressible, one p dropped |
| unpaised | unpraised, r dropped |
| unpalpablely | unpalpably, stray le kept before -ly |
| unpharasaic | unpharisaic, a for i in Pharisaic |
| unpharasaical | unpharisaical, a for i in Pharisaical |
| unphonnetical | unphonetical, n doubled |
| unphonnetically | unphonetically, n doubled |
| unpited | unpitied, one i dropped |
| unporness | unporousness, with ou lost in setting |
| unpredictabilness | unpredictableness, with -able- set as -abil- |
| unproded | unprovided, with vi lost in setting |
| unprolifiness | unprolificness, c dropped |
| unrecuperatiness | unrecuperativeness, with -ve- lost in setting |
| unrepleness | unrepleteness, with -te- lost in setting |
| unrepreseed | unrepressed, with one s misread as e in setting |
| unrrove | unrove (past of unreeve), r doubled |
| unsaked | unasked, with a and s transposed |
| unsalness | unsaltness (want of saltness), t dropped in setting |
| unsolemness | unsolemnness, one n dropped |
| unspotten | unspotted |
| unthoughful | unthoughtful, t dropped |
| untiing | untying |
| untriabness | untriableness, the le dropped |
| unttrod | untrod, t set twice |
| unvernicular | unvernacular, i set for a |
| unwarranness | unwarrantness, dropped t |
| unwarrantabness | unwarrantableness, dropped le |
| upsring | upspring, dropped p |
| uroo | urao, the mineral trona, a misread as o |
| uroodal | uropodal, of a uropod, p dropped |
| urpriser | upriser, p and r transposed |
| uspeaking | unspeaking, n dropped |
| uspoke | unspoke, n dropped |
| uspoken | unspoken, n dropped |
| usurption | usurpation |
| utlilized | utilized |
| vacona | vacoua, the screw pine, u set upside down as n |
| vacuua | vacua, with u doubled |
| vacuuma | vacuum, with a stray final a |
| vagbondia | vagabondia, a dropped |
| vareheaded | bareheaded, b typed as v |
| variagles | variables, b misread as g |
| variatious | variations, n misread as u |
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