egg·corn 
(ĕgkôrn′)
(ĕgkôrn′)n.
A series of words that result from the misunderstanding of a word or phrase as some other word or phrase having a plausible explanation, as free reign for free rein, or to the manor born for to the manner born (from William Shakespeare's Hamlet).
[Coined by Geoffrey K. Pullum (born 1945), British-born American linguist (eggcorn being an eggcorn for acorn, taken as EGG1 + CORN1).]
- synchronization
- synchronize
- synchronized swimming
- synchronizer
- synchronous
- synchronously
- synchronous motor
- synchronousness
- synchronous orbit
- synchronous rotation
- synchrony
- synchrotron
- synchrotron radiation
- synclinal
- syncline
- syncopal
- syncopate
- syncopation
- syncopator
- syncope
- syncopic
- syncretic
- syncretism
- syncretist
- syncretistic