typo

noun

ty·​po ˈtī-(ˌ)pō How to pronounce typo (audio)
plural typos
: an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material

Examples of typo in a Sentence

I spotted three typos on the menu.
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Baltimore picked up right-hander Raimon Gomez from the Mets in the Cedric Mullins trade last year, and Gomez was at 99-103 on Sunday — not a typo, and not just a hot stadium gun — with an average slider at 89-91. Keith Law, New York Times, 26 May 2026 Instead rounds are at sizes that read as typos. Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 In England’s early-modern period, starting around the 1500s, readers understood typos to be inevitable technological blunders. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 Musk is asking the court to unwind OpenAI’s conversion, remove Altman and Brock, and award him up to a hundred and fifty billion dollars (no typo) in damages. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for typo

Word History

Etymology

short for typographical (error)

First Known Use

1878, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of typo was in 1878

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“Typo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typo. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.

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