Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A typographical error.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An abbreviation of typographic, typographical, or typography.
- n. A compositor.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial, dated A compositor; a typographer.
- n. A spelling or typographical error.
- v. To make a typographical error.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A compositor.
- n. colloq. a typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Examples
“I just skimmed over this but please tell me the title typo is a joke ......”
“Forgive the title typo in the YouTube video page though.”
“The Saudi Kingdom is on the defensive on what it calls a typo on it's tourism Web site, a mistake they said.”
“A handwritten sign with a "typo" is better than renny”
“I find lack of proofreading as unacceptable as, hell, substandard glue in the binding; a book with typo after typo is as unreadable to me as one with its pages falling out.”
“The chosen typo is more IBM than a persian fairy tale ...”
“But just for fun - the first person to leave a comment stating what the typo is gets a Psy/Changeling series magnet.”
“That typo is quit the understatement. $114 from LAX to SFO!”
“They also plan to sell at BORDERS too and not just at the fictional “Boarders” in typo land.”
“Once in a while, the volunteer in charge of shirts doesn't check carefully and a typo is immortalized for the season.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘typo’.
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
italicise, reference, ISBN, square bracket, running head, printing process, peer review, ASL, retrievable, lexical, publishable, et alia and 188 more...
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Mistakes Were Made
scanno, typo, catachresis, spoonerism, lapsus linguae, lapsus calami, mispronunciation, faux pas, friendly fire, erratum, divorce, mea culpa and 19 more...
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X is my favorite Y
I used to be quite annoyed by such phrases, so here we go, do your worst, post your Ys.
Only the Ys please.metasyntactic var..., typeface, onomatopoeia, indent style, prime number, sun protection fa..., modifier key, grain, pet peeve, water hardness, unit of temperature, unit of length and 10 more...
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Incorrectum
Mistakes, Errors and Accidents.
nihilartikel, solecism, bevue, corrigendum, acyrology, cacoepy, fido, hamartithia, jeofail, mésalliance, mumpsimus, pseudochronism and 63 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 154
bird's eye view, subtitle, dry humor, outraged, credence, heated, defile, purist, affected, pompous, incisive, straightforward and 32 more...
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82times's Words
memesta, homepwnership, misuse, berrypicking, sparkline, standard, feckless, typo, selvage, puffy, ish, interoperability and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for typo.
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