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 |
|---|---|
| bubonoceze | bubonocele, hernia in the groin |
| bucketfull | bucketful |
| bucrnia | bucrania |
| bufferrer | bufferer |
| bufferrers | bufferers |
| buggess | burgess |
| bulies | bullies |
| bursitos | bursitis |
| butolism | botulism |
| cachinate | cachinnate, to laugh loudly |
| cacoenthes | cacoethes, a bad habit or itch |
| cacothes | cacoethes, a bad habit |
| calcannea | calcanea, the heel bones |
| calcannei | calcanei, the heel bones |
| calcitreation | calcitration, a kicking |
| calderium | caldarium, hot room of a bath |
| canccelli | cancelli, lattice bars |
| candyh | candy, with a stray final h |
| canephroi | canephoroi, basket-bearers |
| canescene | canescence, hoary whiteness |
| capacitativly | capacitatively |
| capilaceous | capillaceous |
| capiturlary | capitulary |
| cardiod | cardioid |
| carpognia | carpogonia |
| carvoepra | carvoeira |
| casusistry | casuistry |
| catachresti | catachrestic |
| catagories | categories |
| cataracteg | cataracted (OCR d read as g) |
| cauboge | camboge, i.e. gamboge (m misread as u) |
| ccesser | cesser, legal cessation of an estate (doubled c) |
| ceennacuelum | cœnaculum, Latin upper dining room (garbled) |
| cemetaries | cemeteries |
| centref | centres (long-s OCR, ſ read as f) |
| ceonocyte | coenocyte, a multinucleate cell |
| cephadia | cephalodia, outgrowths on a lichen thallus |
| cephaldemae | cephaledemae, edemas of the head |
| cerebbella | cerebella (doubled b) |
| cerumniparous | ceruminiparous (secreting cerumen) |
| cespititous | cespititious, made of turf |
| cestraction | Cestracion, the horn-shark genus |
| chateus | chateaus |
| chattererz | chatterers (z read for s) |
| cheeful | cheerful |
| cheefuller | cheerfuller |
| cheefullest | cheerfullest |
| cheiceral | cheliceral (of the chelicerae) |
| chemoprophyalctic | chemoprophylactic |
| chemosmoic | chemosmotic (of chemical osmosis) |
| chiarooscurist | chiaroscurist (doubled o) |
| chiarooscuro | chiaroscuro (doubled o) |
| chiarooscuros | chiaroscuros (doubled o) |
| chimopeelagic | chimopelagic (doubled e) |
| chisled | chiseled |
| chloriamb | choriamb, a metrical foot |
| chloriambus | choriambus, a metrical foot |
| chlornal | chloral |
| cholralosed | chloralosed, drugged with chloralose |
| chromoctye | chromocyte |
| chroncmeter | chronometer |
| chronoscopv | chronoscopy |
| cibbaria | cibaria, Latin foodstuffs |
| cibboria | ciboria, plural of ciborium |
| cicrumspections | circumspections |
| ciliium | cilium |
| cimcumvention | circumvention |
| cincinatti | Cincinnati |
| cinemactic | cinematic |
| cinofoil | cinquefoil, OCR of cinqfoil |
| circue | cirque |
| circuituously | circuitously |
| circumcission | circumcision |
| circut | circuit |
| circuted | circuited |
| circuting | circuiting |
| circuts | circuits |
| cirmcumferential | circumferential |
| cirterion | criterion |
| ciruses | cirruses |
| ciwies | civvies, vv misread as w |
| cleistotcia | cleistothecia |
| clistothcia | clistothecia |
| clupeiod | clupeoid |
| cnibophore | cnidophore (b/d OCR) |
| coation | coaction (compulsion) |
| coauthered | coauthored |
| coccobaccilli | coccobacilli |
| coeltera | coelentera |
| coenobiod | coenobioid, coenobium-like |
| cogweel | cogwheel |
| cogweels | cogwheels |
| coisns | coins |
| coleopttera | coleoptera |
| collossians | Colossians |
| collumelliaceous | columelliaceous |
| collun | collum (Latin, neck), n/m OCR slip |
| colonaded | colonnaded |
| coloquies | colloquies |
| combinantive | combinative |
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