typo
/ˈtaɪpəʊ/noun, verb
typo is spelled T-Y-P-O. The wrong spelling people search most is tyop: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 71 of all searches for the word. Typo is a noun meaning “A typographical error”. The plural of typo is typos or typoes.
How many letters and syllables are in typo?
| Letters | 4: T-Y-P-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, tyop, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell typo?
Typo is spelled T-Y-P-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 72 of the searches for typo in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is typo?
Typo appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce typo?
- /ˈtaɪpəʊ/
Typo has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-typo.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of typo
- typos plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- typoes plural
- typoing participle, present
- typoed participle, past
- typo'd participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does typo mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A typographical error.
Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ
- 2
colloquialdatedA compositor; a typographer.
- 3
Alternative form of taipo.
verb
- 1
To make a typographical error.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Typo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | coquille, faute de frappe , faire une coquille, faire une faute de frappe |
| German | Tippfehler, Druckfehler , sich verschreiben |
| Portuguese | erro de digitação, gralha, erro tipográfico |
| Spanish | gazapo, errata, dedazo, error tipográfico, error de dedo, error dactilográfico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does typo come from?
Clipping of typographical error.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).