typo

See also: typö

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪpəʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪpəʊ

Etymology 1

From typ(ographical error) +‎ -o.

Noun

Wikipedia

typo ‎(plural typos)

1. A typographical error.

Translations

error

• Arabic: خَطَأ مَطْبَعِيّ m ‎(ḵaṭaʾ maṭbaʿiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錯字 (zh), 错字 (zh) ‎(cuòzì), 訛字 (zh), 讹字 (zh) ‎(ézì), 手民之誤, 手民之误 ‎(shǒumínzhīwù), 誤排 (zh), 误排 (zh) ‎(wùpái), 印錯, 印错 ‎(yìncuò), 別字 (zh), 别字 (zh) ‎(biézì), 錯別字 (zh), 错别字 (zh) ‎(cuòbiézì), 誤植 (zh), 误植 (zh) ‎(wùzhí)

• Czech: (misspelling) překlep (cs) m, (typographical error) šotek m
• Dutch: typefout (nl) f
• Esperanto: tajperaro
• Finnish: kirjoitusvirhe (fi), painovirhe, lyöntivirhe (fi)
• French: coquille (fr) f, faute de frappe (fr) f
• German: Tippfehler (de) m
• Greek: τυπογραφικό λάθος n ‎(typografikó láthos)

• Hebrew: שגיאת דפוס f ‎(shgiát dfús)
• Hungarian: elírás (hu), nyomdahiba (hu)
• Irish: dearmad cló m, botún cló m, earráid chló f
• Italian: refuso (it) m
• Japanese: 誤植 (ja) ‎(ごしょく, goshoku), タイプミス ‎(taipumisu), 誤字 ‎(ごじ, goji)
• Latvian: iespiedkļūda f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trykkfeil (no) m, skrivefeil m

• Polish: błąd drukarski m, literówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: erro de digitação m
• Russian: опеча́тка (ru) f ‎(opečátka)
• Spanish: gazapo (es) m
• Swedish: tryckfel c

Coordinate terms

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

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

Etymology 2

From typ(ographer) +‎ -o.

Noun

typo ‎(plural typos)

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

Translations

compositor — see typesetter

Anagrams

• 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)

External links

• “typo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Noun

typō

1. dative singular of typus
2. 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 died out in Brazil during the 1920s).