folk etymology
mistyping
respelling
catachresis
cacoepy
backslang
gainword
consonant mutation
misspelling
barbarism
shrub
ghoti
lethologica
levidrome
collateral form
cacoepistic
Slurvian
misconstrual
mispronouncement
pseudography
heterograph
'way
miswriting
mee-maw
heteronym
homonymophobia
misderivation
malapropism
phonically
malaprop
misdial
eny
wrench
aphetism
homophonous
lish
Cockney rhyming slang
hyperforeignism
iotacism
mispronunciation
spelling pronunciation
misenunciate
præponderance
cacography
false friend
praeponderance
linguistic landscape
C-bomb
typoese
etymologize
book word
frozen
rhetoric
forced rhyme
back-spelling
novocain
spello
modification
initialese
impropriety
syllabicity
mispronouncing
typonese
partial false friend
turgidness
tonal language
decasyllabic
turgidity
heterographic
definitional
short form
tone language
toponymy
flatulence
unphilological
eye dialect
superfix
toponomy
hard word
unmediaeval
equivocal
archaism
etymon
jawbreaker
onomatopoeia
vox nihili
mutated contraction
overworked
heterography
what does … mean
barytone
adnomination
mockney
lolspeak
bless you
eye-word

English words for 'A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.'

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