📚 noun • entry_id 17344
cacography
/kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cacografía
Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography.
Word forms