spello
n.— «I was around for a few momentous typos and spellos (a term my friend uses for words that are misspelled not by accident, but because you really didn’t know the right spelling and didn’t check.) I got to witness e-mail pouring in about the giant 1997 CBC.ca headline “Death of Diana, Princess of Whales.” And I was able to save our Archives site from a reference to “no holes barred wrestling” (ouch.)» —“The importance of copyediting” by Paul Gorbould gor (Toronto, Canada) May 14, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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