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cacography

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Meaning

  1. noun Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism.
  3. noun Poor or illegible handwriting.

Similar words

scribble scrawl scratch orthography graphy heterography dittography spelling graphogram back-spelling

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Word family

cacographical cacographies

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