typo

plural typos · plural typoes

1. A typographical error.First known use late 19th c.

   Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.

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   Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

   His 14 singles titles still look like a typo even for those like me who have watched him build that probably unbreakable record, red brick by red brick.

   2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: misprint, slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

present singular third person typos · participle present typoing · participle past typoed · past typoed · participle past typo'd · past typo'd

1. transitiveTo make a typographical error.

   Tell your mother that that essay I wrote for THE WRITER, that mentions you, is now in print in the Aw-Ghost issue. But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist. I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.

   1993, Piers Anthony, edited by Alan Riggs, Letters to Jenny, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 108

plural typos

1. colloquialcountabledatedA compositor; a typographer.First known use early 19th c.

   On the highest, rear seat was James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri, and his Bride. Capitalise it, friend typo—that last word—word of words in the epiphany of life and love.

   1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Sisters of the Golden Circle”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC

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   “Ever since I was twelve,” she said, “I have worked in a printing office where a celebrated London morning journal is put in type and goes to press. […] I am attached to a man in our office, to whom I shall be married some day. […] I am nineteen now, and have carried on with my ‘typo’ for nearly three years now.

   1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

1. alternativeAlternative form of taipo.