lipography
Etymology
From lipo- + -graphy.
lipography means A scribal or typographical error where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
LIPOGRAPHY — [Noun] A scribal or typographical error where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once. From the Greek lipo- ("lacking") and -graphy ("writing"), it is the ghost of an absent keystroke, the whisper of what should have been doubled but wasn’t. Unlike "haplography" (which specifies the omission of repeated letters) or "lipogram" (a deliberate evasion), lipography is the accidental hollow in a word’s architecture. It is the missing "l" in "parallel," the vanished "t" in "committee," or the solitary "p" where "Mississippi" should ripple—small absences that betray the fragility of written language, the way even the most solid words can crumble under a careless hand.
noun
- A scribal or typographical error where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once.