Secretary's error
The crossword clue "Secretary's error" is answered by TYPO, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TYPO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TYPO answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TYPO
Every other clue in this collection answered by TYPO, most used first.
- Keyboard goof - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Clerical error - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Autocorrect target - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Misprint - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Proofreader's find - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Keyboarding mistake - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Printed mistake - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Proof goof - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Proofreader's catch - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Glitch in print - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Proofer's find - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Editor's catch - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Erratum - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Key mistake? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Keyboard error - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Printing error - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Copyeditor's catch - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Keyboarding error - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Printing error, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Tit for tat, maybe - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Error - SLIP, used 18 times
- Minor error - SLIP, used 14 times
- Pitcher's error - BALK, used 13 times
- Freudian error - SLIP, used 10 times
- __ error - USER, used 7 times
- Pinball error - TILT, used 7 times
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