cacography

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism.
Poor or illegible handwriting.

/kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/

cacography cacographies kakography

From caco- + -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie.

orthography calligraphy

illegible indecipherable indistinct obscure scrawled unclear undecipherable unreadable

cacographer cacographic cacographical

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