typo

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪpəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪpəʊ

Clipping of typographical error.

typo (plural typos or typoes)

1. A typographical error. [from late 19th c.]

   Synonym: misprint

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

   • 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:

     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.

• atomic typo

• clicko, scanno, speako, spello, thinko, writo
• lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

• TYPO3, tpyo, tyop

typo (third-person singular simple present typos, present participle typoing, simple past and past participle typoed or typo'd)

1. To make a typographical error.
   • 1993, Piers Anthony, edited by Alan Riggs, Letters to Jenny, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 108:

     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.

Clipping of typographer.

typo (plural typos)

1. (colloquial, dated) A compositor; a typographer. [from early 19th c.]
   • 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:

     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.

• “typo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “typo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• -topy, pyot

From typographe.

• IPA^(key): /ti.po/

typo m (plural typos, feminine typote)

1. a typo (compositor)

• “typo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

typo (plural typos)

1. type

typō

1. dative/ablative singular of typus

typo m (plural typos)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of tipo.