ghost word

n. A word that has come into a dictionary, grammar, or other scholarly work as a result of a misreading or misinterpretation, as by mistaking a typographical error for an actual word.

ghost word

n (Linguistics) a word that has entered the language through the perpetuation, in dictionaries, etc, of an error

ghost′ word`

n. a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission. [1885–90]

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ghost word - a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an errordescriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"

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noun a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error

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