typographical error

English

Noun

typographical error (plural typographical errors)

1. A mistake made during the process of typing, especially one caused by a slip of the fingers.
   • 2013 January 9, Derek Lowe, “Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less”, in In the Pipeline‎^[1]:

     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).

2. A mistake made during the process of typesetting.

   Synonym: misprint

Usage notes

Often shortened to typo.

Translations

typing error

• Afrikaans: vingerfout, tikfout
• Armenian: վրիպակ (hy) (vripak)
• Czech: překlep (cs) m, překlep (cs) m, chyba tisku f, tisková chyba f
• Danish: skrivefejl c, trykkefejl c
• Dutch: typefout (nl)
• Esperanto: tajperaro
• Finnish: painovirhe (fi)
• French: faute de frappe (fr), coquille (fr) f, bourdon (fr) m, mastic (fr) m, doublon (fr) m, sauton (fr) m
• German: Tippfehler (de) m, Druckfehler (de) m
• Hungarian: elírás (hu), nyomdahiba (hu), elgépelés
• Icelandic: prentvilla f
• Irish: dearmad cló m, botún cló m, earráid chló f
• Italian: errore di battitura m
• Japanese: 誤植 (ja) (goshoku), 誤字 (ja) (goji)
• Malay: ralat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skrivefeil (no) m, trykkfeil (no) m

  Nynorsk: skrivefeil m, trykkfeil m

• Russian: опеча́тка (ru) f (opečátka)
• Spanish: errata (es) f
• Tagalog: limbitning biso
• Ukrainian: опи́ска f (opýska)
• Vietnamese: lỗi chính tả, lỗi đánh vần

Further reading

• “typographical error”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.