typoglycemia error
- noun
- /ˌtaɪpəˈɡliːsiːmiə ˈɛrər/
:
error de tipoglicemia
- This sentence contains a typoglycemia error that is easy to read.
Examples
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Readers quickly deciphered the typoglycemia error in the headline without missing its meaning.
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Did you notice the typoglycemia error in that paragraph?
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His essay had one typoglycemia error per paragraph, but it was still easy to follow.
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The email contained a typoglycemia error that made the sentence funny but understandable.
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His essay had one typoglycemia error per paragraph, but it was still easy to follow.
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Readers quickly deciphered the typoglycemia error in the headline without missing its meaning.
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The email contained a typoglycemia error that made the sentence funny but understandable.
Synonyms
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2.3
A small mistake in typed or printed text, like a wrong letter
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2.2
A mistake in a book or paper, for example a wrong letter
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3.0
A small mistake in printed or typed text
A small mistake made when you press the wrong key
How Legible
Surface Forms
Morphology
typoglycemia + error
This is an opaque, nonce/neologistic term: knowing 'error' only signals a mistake, while 'typoglycemia' is not a transparent or recognizable English morpheme (and its Greek-looking parts are misleading). A B1 learner who knows both surface words would still not be able to derive the specific sense 'letters within words jumbled but readable', so the phrase is not compositionally predictable.
Etymology
Typoglycemia error comes from a popular internet joke that showed sentences with the middle letters of words mixed up while the first and last letters stayed the same. This image of messy insides but neat edges shows why we can still 'read' the text, so the phrase means an error where letters inside words are jumbled but the sentence stays understandable.