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typosquats

typosquats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of typosquat.

typosquats is the plural of typosquat.

Meaning of typosquat

Verb

typosquat (third-person singular simple present typosquats, present participle typosquatting, simple past and past participle typosquatted)

  1. To register a domain name likely to be mistyped by users.
    • Presumably it would be difficult to typosquat on a personalized Facebook username, provided that Facebook is vigilant about responding to complaints by trademark holders under its current online procedure.2008, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, page 263

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Questions about typosquats

What is typosquats the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Typosquats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of typosquat.

Words near typosquats in the dictionary

  1. typos
  2. typoscript
  3. typoscripts
  4. typosphere
  5. typosquat
  6. typosquats
  7. typosquatted
  8. typosquatter
  9. typosquatters
  10. typosquatting
  11. typostrophism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typosquats (page history and authors); typosquat (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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