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. [from late 19th c.]

   Hyponym: atomic typo

   Coordinate terms: writo; clicko, copy-pasto, hearo, scanno, speako, spello, thinko

   Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

   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^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• tpyo, tyop

Translations

error

• Afrikaans: vingerfout, tikfout
• Arabic: خَطَأ مَطْبَعِيّ m (ḵaṭaʔ maṭbaʕiyy)
• 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 (id), 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, taipo m (United States)
• Swedish: tryckfel (sv) n, stavfel (sv) n
• Thai: คำผิด, พิมพ์ผิด
• Turkish: yazım hatası
• Ukrainian: друка́рська по́милка f (drukársʹka pómylka), о́друк (uk) m (ódruk), опи́ска f (opýska), одруківка f (odrukivka)
• 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. (transitive) 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.

Translations

make a typographical error

• Czech: překlepnout se
• French: faire une coquille, faire une faute de frappe
• German: sich verschreiben
• Hungarian: elgépel (hu)
• Indonesian: saltik (id), salah ketik
• Russian: опеча́тываться (ru) impf (opečátyvatʹsja), опеча́таться (ru) pf (opečátatʹsja)

Etymology 2

Clipping of typographer.

Noun

typo (countable and uncountable, plural typos)

1. (colloquial, dated, countable) 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.

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     “Ever since I was twelve,” she said, “I have worked in a printing office where a celebrated London morning journal is put in type and goes to press. […] I am attached to a man in our office, to whom I shall be married some day. […] I am nineteen now, and have carried on with my ‘typo’ for nearly three years now.

Etymology 3

Noun

typo

1. Alternative form of taipo

Translations

compositor — see typesetter

Further reading

• “typo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “typo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• -topy, pyot

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.

Interlingua

Noun

typo (plural typos)

1. type

Latin

Noun

typō

1. dative/ablative singular of typus

Portuguese

Noun

typo m (plural typos)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tipo.