catachresis
misappellation
loosely
mispronunciation
mistyping
miswriting
mispronouncement
misspelling
cacoepistic
malappropriate
verbalism
misdefine
misnomer
hypercorrect
paint out
skidoo
malapropism
malaprop
disalign
ghost word
logomachize
obscenity
wrench
misconstruction
antiphrase
hard word
mishyphen
partial false friend
mondegreen
counterdefinition
verbal
abbreviation
cacoepy
acyron
barbarism
proverbial
notional opposite
misarchism
pass off as
supersense
jocularism
antonym
sophisticate
ancestor
vocable
adnominal
logomachist
equivocal
derogative
banjo dulcimer
locution
uncorrectly
confusable
antonymous
figure of speech
misusage
nipcheese
eggcorn
-phobiac
grandiloquism
abbreviature
vulgarism
ass
buzz-phrase
arse
pejorative
epithet
have swallowed a dictionary
antiphrasis
basic form
bless you
name
anacoloutha
-phobic
nominativus pendens
misconstrual
whatsit
cliché
misdefinition
paronymy
Oïl language
Pickwickian
loaded word
literally
orphaned negative
skiddly
mislexicalize
metaphor
loanword
signification
false friend
dim
disalignment

English words for 'A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.'

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