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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal A typographical error.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An abbreviation of typographic, typographical, or typography.
  2. n. A compositor.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A compositor.
  2. n. A spelling or typographical error.
  3. v. To make a typographical error.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A compositor.
  2. n. a typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

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  • reesetee My hero. Apr 28, 2008

  • 82times that works pretty well. i think i'll use that. Sep 26, 2007

  • john Um... how about "semantic typo?" Sep 26, 2007

  • john Wrestle with, yes. Have word for, no (though I'd like one).

    Semantic typos like that are doubly pernicious because they're usually spellcheck-proof. Sep 26, 2007

  • 82times I'm looking for a word that means "a typo that changes the meaning of the surrounding idea."

    Its something I do all the time. Here's some examples from recent iChat logs:

    meant: I'm not gonna go there tonight.
    typed: I'm not gonna go here tonight.

    meant: you get an A for the trumpet
    typed: you get an A for the trumped

    meant: i like this one so far
    typed: i like this one say far

    meant: new york times
    typed: new your times

    Sometimes I find that its just a missed or mistyped letter, but other times its a word that I was going to write two sentences later, some kinda brain-bored-waiting-for-fingers thing.

    Does anyone else wrestle with this? Sep 25, 2007

‘typo’ has been looked up 1140 times, added to 9 lists, commented on 5 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.