Cacography

/kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/

Synonyms for "cacography" (11 found)

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Noun(3 words)

illegible handwritingmisspellingorthographic error

Noun(2 words)

poor handwritingscratch

Noun(5 words)

scrawl scribblesloppy penmanshipspelling errorunreadable script

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illegible handwritingmisspellingsloppy scriptspelling mistake

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orthographic errorpoor handwritingsloppy penmanshipspelling errorspelling mistakeunreadable script

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A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.

Source: wiktionary

In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography.

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The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.

Source: wiktionary

Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.

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