mistakenoun

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a mistake
mistakeIt was just a silly mistake - no need to apologize.
errorHe admitted that he'd made an error.
blunderThe company was struggling after a series of financial blunders.
slipIt was an understandable slip.
mix-upThere was a mix-up with the bags at the airport.
gaffeI made a real gaffe by calling her "Emma", which is the name of his previous girlfriend.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faults and mistakes
(that's) your hard luckidiom
aberration
Achilles heel
adrift
black mark
blemish
errata
erratum
error
failing
false move
loophole
malaprop
miscue
misfunction
misperception
snag list
that's/it's your funeral!idiom
uncorrectable
uncorrected

typo | American Dictionary

typo
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtɑɪ·poʊ/pluraltypos
a mistake made in printed material produced by a computer or a typewriter

typo | Business English

typo
noun[ C ]
 informaluk /ˈtaɪpəʊ/us
a small mistake in a printed text:
The text was full of typos.

Examples of typo

typo
There were several typos and sections that were rather clumsily expressed.
Substitutions seem to top the list in spelling errors whereas omissions and insertions are more common in typos.
There are many typos and inconsistencies, and too often the formulas contain unfamiliar symbols which are never explained.
Some contributions are plagued by typos and are poorly organized, while others are beautifully written and have the potential of becoming classic readings.
But it is a great shame that it contains so many typos.
The raw material types show further significant variations in the quantities and the typo-technological form in which they were discarded.
This is not petty criticism of typos or spelling errors, but reference to a certain lack of precision throughout the volume.
There are many typos, probable misspellings, hyphens in words where none belong, repeated lines of text, and missing words.
The volume would have benefited from closer proofreading to eliminate a number of stylistic infelicities, omitted words, typos, etc. which occur in some chapters.
More egregiously, the book is rife with typos.
Even the typos are entertaining : one wonders who the ' pronominal critics ' are (126).
Some typos are confusing, but are in the errata online.
The print volume is exceptionally poorly produced, with typos, omissions, repetitions, verbless sentences and redundant apostrophes.
All three books have obviously undergone an excellent editing process: remaining typos and mistakes are very few and minor.
But ouch, the program contains a typo: in the else branch the numbers are added rather than multiplied.
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