Writo

"Writo" in a Sentence (4 examples)

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

He moved on to discuss errors beyond the typo -- the speako, the writo, and ultimately the conceivo (walking up to the combination-locked door on our computer lab, I reach into my pocket and pull my keys out).

I am much quicker at writing than typing and I make many more typos than I do "writos."

After individual styles, hapax legomena and writos (slips of writers' pens, as typos are accidental but patterned slips of typists' fingers) have been identified and isolated, the structures of the language of all writers can be researched.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.