Mistypes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. A typographical error resulting from incorrect keystrokes
2. errors that occur during the act of typing, often leading to unintended characters or words
3. instances of miswritten text that deviate from the intended input

Etymology: "Mistypes" is the third-person singular form of "mistype", a verb meaning to hit the wrong key while typing. The verb is formed from the prefix "mis-", which goes back through Old English and Proto-Germanic to a root meaning something like "wrong" or "amiss", attached to "type", which came into English from Latin "typus" and Greek "typos", meaning a blow or impression, as in a stamp that leaves a mark. The original sense of "type" therefore concerned physical impressions, such as a die striking metal or a mark pressed into a surface. Its later meanings, including the printed letter, grew out of that idea of a stamped imprint, so that a mistype was once a flaw in the mark itself before it became a flaw in a keystroke.

Synonyms: errors, mistakes