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typographical errors

typographical errors is the plural of typographical error.

Meaning of typographical error

Noun

typographical error (plural typographical errors)

  1. A mistake made during the process of typing, especially one caused by a slip of the fingers.
    • We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here ... and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors).2013 January 9, Derek Lowe, “Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less”, in In the Pipeline
  2. A mistake made during the process of typesetting.
    Synonyms:
    misprint

Questions about typographical errors

What is typographical errors the plural of?
Typographical errors is the plural of typographical error.

Words near typographical errors in the dictionary

  1. typographica
  2. typographical
  3. typographical apostrophe
  4. typographical apostrophes
  5. typographical error
  6. typographical errors
  7. typographically
  8. typographies
  9. typographing
  10. typographist
  11. typographists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typographical errors (page history and authors); typographical error (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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