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Dictionary escapees

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Words that were created in dictionaries, glossaries, or lexicons, including

1) Words for which no evidence for their occurrence in print outside of dictionaries and glossaries has yet been found, but where the entries appear to be bona fide attempts to record their existence in a particular language (e.g., alabandical, pierelle).

2) Words inserted in dictionaries as jokes or hoaxes (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis), or to guard against copyright violations (esquivalience).

3) Words created to provide technical vocabulary in a particular subject area (cryptoscopophilia).

4) Words created by some form of editorial lapse (dord).

5) Variant spellings created by editorial attempts to standardize spelling (youngmannishness).

6) Words that are otherwise unrecorded forms (plurals, principle parts, back-formations) of documented words (cubomancies).
Words 1 through 15 of 15
alabandical   has been listed 6 times with 1 comment
mountweazel   has been listed 11 times with 8 comments
egrote   has been listed 3 times with 9 comments
cheerlessnesses   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
eunoia   has been listed 9 times with 3 comments
lactigerous   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
cubomancies   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
cryptoscopophilia   has been listed 4 times with 1 comment
zzxjoanw   has been listed 5 times with 2 comments
kelemenopy   has been listed 9 times with 3 comments
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis   has been listed 47 times with 11 comments
dord   has been listed 10 times with 2 comments
youngmannishness   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
esquivalience   has been listed 10 times with 11 comments
pierelle   has been listed 5 times with 15 comments
Words 1 through 15 of 15
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20 days ago mollusque said:

Also see the list Mountweazels.

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