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How to use typo in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Typo means a typographical error. Example: “Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.”

Examples of typo by meaning

nounA typographical error.

  • Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.
  • 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.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

verbTo make a typographical error.

  • But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist.1993, Piers Anthony, edited by Alan Riggs, Letters to Jenny, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 108

More sentences with typo

  • Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.From the entry send
  • Oops, I just made another typo with my sausage fingers!From the entry sausage finger
  • She owns a copy of the first printing, which is a favorite among book collectors because some of the typos in it seem like Freudian slips.From the entry printing
  • A: I noticed a minor typo in the proofs just now, but I think they're already doing the make-ready on the press. B: Time to let sleeping dogs lie then.From the entry let sleeping dogs lie
  • A simple keystroke mistake or typo could result in the payment amount being wrong.2023 December 15, Shaun Jex, “How to Handle Short Payments”, in Quadient. From the entry short payment
  • Over at Project Gutenberg, they use the term “scanos” as an analogue of “typos.”2014 May 29, John Brown, “Edward Bear Shares More Proofreading Secrets”, in John Brown - author's official site. From the entry scano
  • My daughter, Juliet, tells me that an OCR error is called a scano rather than a typo.2010 Ivan Sutherland, "Old Salt Lake stories that you may not have heard," in Ian Piumarta & Kimberly Rose, eds., Points of View - a…. From the entry scano
  • There are two kinds of linguistic missteps, the typos and the thinkos.2009, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, page 59. From the entry thinko
  • Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression.2009, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, page 59. From the entry thinko
  • Policy is not required to file bugs (minor for typos, wishlist for "unaestheticness") against package descriptions.2001 August 19, Chris Waters, “Bug#108416: Format of short description should be mandated”, in linux.debian.policy (Usenet), archived from…. From the entry unaestheticness
  • The answer is “yesn’t.” No, that’s not a typo.2022 June 15, Cédric, “When You Combine AI with IoT… You Get AIoT!”, in Uzinakod, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024. From the entry yesn't
  • You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo.2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes. From the entry cream
  • I am much quicker at writing than typing and I make many more typos than I do "writos."2008 October 12, dee.cee.vee [username], “Vista vs Tablet [ Vista the Winner ]”, in microsoft.public.windows.tabletp (Usenet). From the entry writo
  • It was a typo, not a spello.2004 August 19, Some_sappy_Writer, “Missouri's Vote on Gay Marriage”, in talk.abortion (Usenet). From the entry spello
  • He also wondered why I couldn't spell properly - I had to explain the difference between a typo and a spello.2003 October 7, Yowie, "You might be a Californian if...", rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, Usenet. From the entry spello
  • In other words, you made a "speako" rather than a "typo." Speech systems these days are typically interactive, allowing for verification of input.1999, Transportation & Distribution, volume 40, page 4. From the entry speako
  • After she had read my drafts, I received the final script with my Hungarianisms turned into clear English, my grammatical mistakes corrected and my typos eliminated.2007, Joel T. Klein, Body-Soul-Spirit, →ISBN. From the entry Hungarianism
  • "Well," she said, "I am a recent user of 'spellcheck.' I thought I might make some typos on the computer and spellcheck would pick that up.1995 April 9, Diane Ketcham, “About Long Island; ‘If You Can’t Spell You Look Stupid’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry spellcheck
  • LITERALS type characters: to read proof for literals is to read letter for letter, watching for proper spelling, punctuation, etc., as well as for typos: formerly spelled letterals.[1971, Ruth Kimball Kent, The Language of Journalism: A Glossary of Print-communications Terms, page 82. From the entry letteral

Meaning of typo

  1. noun A typographical error.
  2. verb To make a typographical error.
  3. noun A compositor; a typographer.

Full definition of typo

Questions about typo in a sentence

How do you use typo in a sentence?
Typo is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.”
What is a short sentence with typo?
“It was a typo, not a spello.”
What does typo mean?
Typo means a typographical error.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typo (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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