Meaning

2 senses
  1. A typographical error.

    Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

    Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.

    Tippfehler, Druckfehler

    опеча́ткаopečátka

    друка́рська по́милкаdrukársʹka pómylka, о́друкódruk, опи́скаopýska

  2. (colloquial, countable, dated)A compositor; a typographer.

More definitions
  • a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

Examples

54 sentences
  1. Sorry for all the typos.

    Перепрошую за всі одруківки. — deniko

    ruПрошу прощения за все опечатки. — Balamax

    deEntschuldigung für die ganzen Tippfehler! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I don't think that that's a typo.

    deIch glaube nicht, daß das ein Tippfehler ist. — Waldelfe

  3. Spellchecking will usually catch most of your typos.

    deDie Rechtschreibprüfung findet normalerweise die meisten Tippfehler, die man macht. — raggione

  4. There are several typos in this document that need to be fixed.

  5. There are several typos in this document that need to be corrected.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Origin

Clipping of typographical error. Clipping of typographer.

Clipping of typographical error.

Clipping of typographer.

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Forms

plural: typos / typoes
Singulartypo
Pluraltypos / typoes

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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