typo

typo

See also: typö

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪpəʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪpəʊ

Etymology 1

Clipping of typographical error.

Noun

typo (plural typos or typoes)

1. A typographical error.

   Sorry, I meant to say "buy a SODA" - "sofa" was a typo

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

error

Arabic: خَطَأ مَطْبَعِيّ‎ m (ḵaṭaʾ maṭbaʿiyy) Armenian: վրիպակ (hy) (vripak) Belarusian: друка́рская памы́лка f (drukárskaja pamýlka) Bengali: ছাপার ভুল (chapar bhul) Bulgarian: печа́тна гре́шка f (pečátna gréška) Chinese: Mandarin: 錯字／错字 (zh) (cuòzì), 訛字／讹字 (zh) (ézì), 手民之誤／手民之误 (shǒumínzhīwù), 誤排／误排 (zh) (wùpái), 印錯／印错 (yìncuò), 別字／别字 (zh) (biézì), 錯別字／错别字 (zh) (cuòbiézì), 誤植／误植 (zh) (wùzhí) Czech: (misspelling) překlep (cs) m, (typographical error) šotek m Danish: tastefejl c, trykfejl c Dutch: typefout (nl) f Esperanto: tajperaro, mistajpaĵo Finnish: kirjoitusvirhe (fi), painovirhe (fi), lyöntivirhe (fi) French: coquille (fr) f, faute de frappe (fr) f German: Tippfehler (de) m, Druckfehler (de) m Greek: τυπογραφικό λάθος n (typografikó láthos) Hebrew: שגיאת דפוס‎ f (shgiát dfús) Hungarian: sajtóhiba (hu), (a result of mistyping) elgépelés, elírás (hu), (esp. a result of the printing process) nyomdahiba (hu) Icelandic: prentvilla f Indonesian: saltik, kesalahan pengetikkan Irish: dearmad cló m, botún cló m, earráid chló f Italian: refuso (it) m, errore di battitura m Japanese: 誤植 (ja) (ごしょく, goshoku), タイプミス (taipumisu), 誤字 (ja) (ごじ, goji), ミスタイプ (misutaipu) Korean: 오타(誤打) (ota), 오자(誤字) (ko) (oja), 오식(誤植) (osik), 타이프 미스 (taipeu miseu), 미스타이프 (miseutaipeu) Latvian: iespiedkļūda f Macedonian: грешка во пишување f (greška vo pišuvanje), печатарска грешка f (pečatarska greška) Norwegian: Bokmål: trykkfeil (no) m, skrivefeil (no) m Nynorsk: trykkfeil m, skrivefeil m Polish: błąd drukarski m, literówka (pl) f Portuguese: erro de digitação m, gralha (pt) f, erro tipográfico m Russian: опеча́тка (ru) f (opečátka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тѝпфелер m Roman: tìpfeler (sh) m Slovak: preklep m Slovene: tipkarska napaka f Spanish: gazapo (es) m, errata (es) f, dedazo m, error tipográfico m, error de dedo m, error dactilográfico m, error de tecleo m Swedish: tryckfel (sv) n, stavfel (sv) n Turkish: yazım hatası Ukrainian: друка́рська по́милка f (drukársʹka pómylka), о́друк (uk) m (ódruk) Vietnamese: của thợ in, lỗi in ấn

Verb

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.

Translations

make a typographical error

Czech: překlepnout se French: faire une coquille, faire une faute de frappe Hungarian: elgépel Indonesian: saltik, salah ketik

Etymology 2

Clipping of typographer.

Noun

typo (plural typos)

1. (colloquial, dated) A compositor; a typographer.

Translations

compositor — see typesetter

Anagrams

• -topy, pyot

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French

Etymology

From typographe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.po/

Noun

typo m (plural typos, feminine typote)

1. a typo (compositor)

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Noun

typo (plural typos)

1. type

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Latin

Noun

typō

1. dative/ablative singular of typus

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Portuguese

Noun

typo m (plural typos)

1. Obsolete spelling of tipo (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).