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typosquatted

typosquatted is the simple past and past participle 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 typosquatted

What is typosquatted the simple past and past participle of?
Typosquatted is the simple past and past participle of typosquat.

Words near typosquatted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typosquatted (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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