Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi.
noun plural -phies
- the accidental writing of only one letter or syllable where there should be two similar letters or syllables, as in spelling endodontics as endontics
scribal error of writing only once a letter that should have been written twice; see haplo- + -graphy.