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 |
|---|---|
| varidical | veridical |
| varificatory | verificatory |
| variocuopler | variocoupler, uo transposed |
| vascla | vascula, plural of vasculum, u dropped |
| vaudios | Vaudois, the Waldenses, oi transposed |
| vauguelinite | vauquelinite, a lead copper chromate, q read as g |
| vegeterianism | vegetarianism |
| venacularism | vernacularism, r dropped |
| vernition | vernation, the arrangement of leaves in the bud |
| vesigia | vestigia, Latin plural of vestigium, with the t dropped |
| vestigal | vestigial |
| vialogue | dialogue, the first letter misread as vi, as in viasma for miasma |
| viasma | miasma, the first letter misread as vi, as in vialogue for dialogue |
| vibioid | vibrioid, comma-shaped like a vibrio, with the r dropped |
| vicualling | victualling, with the t dropped |
| vicuda | vicuna, the ñ of vicuña misread as d |
| villeity | velleity, a faint wish that stops short of action |
| vipresident | vice-president, with the ce dropped |
| visceroperitioneal | visceroperitoneal, with an extra i |
| vitilago | vitiligo |
| vitrous | vitreous, with the e dropped |
| vituperatiou | vituperation, with the final n misread as u |
| vivariia | vivaria, with a doubled i |
| vivariiums | vivariums, with a doubled i |
| volvullus | volvulus, with a doubled l |
| vomtoria | vomitoria, with the i dropped |
| warantee | warrantee |
| warmmess | warmness |
| warrty | warty |
| wastabl | wastable, final e lost |
| wastland | wasteland |
| waterlilly | water-lily, misspelled with -lilly |
| wetched | wretched |
| whafabout | whatabout, f/t scan confusion |
| whipoorwill | whippoorwill |
| willble | willable (dropped a) |
| windz | winds |
| winterffed | winterfed, with f doubled |
| withdaw | withdraw |
| woodcoc | woodcock |
| woodcraf | woodcraft |
| woordbook | wordbook |
| wordlier | worldlier |
| workingwonan | workingwoman |
| woundworth | woundwort, the plant Stachys |
| wrager | wager |
| wrongfuly | wrongfully |
| xanthrochroid | xanthochroid, fair-haired and light-skinned |
| xiphistna | xiphisterna, plural of xiphisternum |
| yeaoman | yeoman |
| zaboglione | zabaglione |
| zalamboodont | zalambdodont |
| zaptoeca | Zapoteca, the Zapotec people of Oaxaca |
| zemimdari | zemindari, a zemindar's estate or land tenure |
| zemstroist | zemstvoist, supporter of the Russian zemstvo |
| zipppier | zippier |
| zipppiest | zippiest |
| zoogrpahy | zoography |
| zymolyis | zymolysis |
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