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 |
|---|---|
| famulli | famuli, plural of famulus |
| fantaseid | fantasied |
| farenheit | Fahrenheit |
| farinosel | farinosely (truncated) |
| fascili | fasciculi |
| fascintatingly | fascinatingly |
| fastiia | fastigia, plural of fastigium |
| faticableness | fatigableness |
| festshrifts | festschrifts |
| fiaroblast | fibroblast |
| fibrilated | fibrillated |
| fibrilation | fibrillation |
| fibrilations | fibrillations |
| fiducinales | fidicinales |
| fiercly | fiercely |
| figeter | fidgeter |
| flabbella | flabella, plural of flabellum |
| flaggelate | flagellate |
| flaggelated | flagellated |
| flaggelating | flagellating |
| flaggelation | flagellation |
| flaggella | flagella |
| flagilate | flagellate |
| flamless | flameless |
| flarfish | flatfish |
| flarfishes | flatfishes |
| fleing | fleeing |
| flexibilty | flexibility |
| flioma | glioma |
| flittermmice | flittermice, bats |
| florilage | florilege, an anthology |
| floroscope | fluoroscope |
| flotsan | flotsam |
| focoids | fucoids, fucus seaweeds |
| foeffment | feoffment |
| foothil | foothill |
| foothils | foothills |
| forbbore | forbore |
| forbborne | forborne |
| foredesk | foredeck (c misread as s) |
| foreffelt | forefelt (f doubled by the press) |
| foregahger | foreganger (rope on a harpoon); n read as h |
| foreseing | foreseeing (one e dropped) |
| foresey | foresee (final e read as y) |
| forethough | forethought (t dropped) |
| formentation | fomentation (r intruded) |
| forminate | formicate, to crawl like ants (c read as n) |
| formolit | formolite (final e lost) |
| fortescure | fortescue, a small spiny fish |
| fortifys | fortifies |
| fortranh | FORTRAN (stray trailing h) |
| fortuuned | fortuned (u doubled) |
| fossified | fossilified (-il- dropped) |
| fosslfying | fossilifying (i dropped from fossil) |
| fosslify | fossilify (i dropped from fossil) |
| fosslology | fossilology (i dropped from fossil) |
| fosterite | forsterite, the magnesian olivine |
| founce | flounce (l dropped) |
| fourfiusher | fourflusher (fl ligature read as fi) |
| fowent | forwent (r dropped) |
| frakfurt | Frankfurt (n dropped) |
| freedoot | freeboot (b read as d) |
| freefd | freed (stray f) |
| freiezlebenhe | freieslebenite, a silver-lead sulphosalt |
| frenuna | frenula, plural of frenulum (l read as n) |
| frigiddaria | frigidaria, plural of frigidarium (d doubled) |
| frithles | frithless, without peace or protection |
| fritniency | fritiniancy, the chirping of insects |
| froeman | freeman (e read as o) |
| frontomallar | frontomalar |
| frsiket | frisket (printing frame), i/s transposed |
| frsikets | friskets, i/s transposed |
| frumaryl | fumaryl (chemical radical) |
| fulfullment | fulfillment |
| fulgourous | fulgurous, flashing like lightning |
| fumattoria | fumatoria, pl. of fumatorium |
| fumbulator | funambulator, a rope-walker |
| fursemide | furosemide, the diuretic |
| fusobteria | fusobacteria |
| futiley | futilely |
| fuzzines | fuzziness |
| fwelling | swelling (long-s OCR) |
| galinaceous | gallinaceous |
| galipoipin | galipoidin |
| galleriies | galleries |
| galluot | galliot, a small galley |
| galvvanoscopy | galvanoscopy |
| gamdia | gambia, the astringent catechu |
| gamgia | gambia, the astringent catechu |
| gandertmeeth | ganderteeth, letters transposed |
| gangwa | gangway |
| gaoloring | gaolering |
| garbline | garbling (sifting of spices) |
| garnisheing | garnisheeing |
| garrnishable | garnishable |
| gasmetophytic | gametophytic |
| gauily | gaudily |
| geldesprung | geländesprung, a ski turn |
| gelfomino | gelsomino, Italian jasmine (long-s OCR) |
| geoemtry | geometry |
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