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haplographies

haplographies is the plural of haplography.

Meaning of haplography

Noun

haplography (countable and uncountable, plural haplographies)

  1. Accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, mispell for misspell.
    • In the apparatus of Trounce's edition, dittography occurs at line 266, haplography at line 352, and there are numerous erasures and corrections within the text.1999, Elaine Treharne, “Romanticizing the Past in the Middle English Athelston”, in The Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press

Questions about haplographies

What is haplographies the plural of?
Haplographies is the plural of haplography.

Words near haplographies in the dictionary

  1. haplogies
  2. haplogranite
  3. haplogranitic
  4. haplograph
  5. haplographic
  6. haplographies
  7. haplographs
  8. haplography
  9. haplogroup
  10. haplogrouping
  11. haplogroups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haplographies (page history and authors); haplography (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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