Cacography

Quick meaning: Cacography is a noun meaning Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.

Meaning

Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.

More Meanings

1. Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism.
2. Poor or illegible handwriting.

Example Sentences

A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.

Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.

The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.

I don't even recognize the handwriting – kind of a scrawled, almost illegible cacography with the letters slanting haphazardly in all directions.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for cacography

Depending on context, synonyms include scrawl, scratch, scribble.

Antonyms for cacography

Common opposites include orthography, calligraphy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scribble, scrawl, scratch, orthography, graphy, heterography.

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