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