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ideolect

ideolect is the misspelling of idiolect.

Meaning of idiolect

Noun

idiolect (plural idiolects)

  1. The language variant used by a specific individual.
    • She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 3

Forms of ideolect

pluralideolects

Origin of ideolect

By confusing the prefix idio- with the unrelated but homophone ideo-.

Words formed from ideolect

Questions about ideolect

What is ideolect the misspelling of?
Ideolect is the misspelling of idiolect.

Words near ideolect in the dictionary

  1. ideographs
  2. ideography
  3. ideokinetic
  4. ideolatries
  5. ideolatry
  6. ideolect
  7. ideolectic
  8. ideolog
  9. ideologeme
  10. ideologemes
  11. ideologemic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ideolect (page history and authors); idiolect (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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