Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

printo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: printo
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An error made during printing.

Slang

Example Sentences

"I can see why it would be tempting to treat a smart printer controller as a special case: the data is going onto paper and will never be seen by software again; if the user sees a printo on the paper, he can have it re-printed."
"Most *English* calendars you have seen, I suppose. In Germany there is no such possible calendar. If you printed a calendar that way, it would be considered a printo. The same is true in most parts of the continent."
""I was informed by the doctor that the marshes here are still malarial, and the mosquitoes believed to have put paid to the thriving Greek colony of antiquity, as active as ever." ¶ Put paid? Might be a printo (but if it was, what was intended isn't clear), but I'm thinking I'm just having a brain fart."

Etymology

From print + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

printos (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

clicko copy-pasto hearo scanno speako spello thinko typo

Questions

What does printo mean?: An error made during printing.
Where does printo come from?: From print + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).

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