It's not a typo, you just wrote it wrong

[Trills]

A typo is when your brain knows what you wanted to write but your fingers got it wrong.

"teh" instead of "the", for example

or "it'sn ot" when you meant to write "it's not"

If you spell something wrong or use the wrong word when there's no plausible way that your fingers could have done it on their own, it's not a typo.

[OutsSelf]

'Wrote it wrong' sounds incorrect to me. Was it a typo, OP?

[Trills]

Also - it's only a selfie if the person in the picture took it THEMSELVES

[notagiraffe]

Not true. I'm an editor and get paid a fortune to write professionally. But I sent an email to a client yesterday which said 'I now' instead of 'I know.' Should have checked it, but was in a hurry and it was one of those emails you dash off, not one that requires thought for its content. It looked ignorant but was a typo.

[MorrisZapp]

Agree. 'queue MIL kicking off...' isn't a typo. It's the wrong word.

[Trills]

That was one letter different notagiraffe - that perfectly fits my description of a typo.

[motherinferior]

Yes! Yes! And thrice yes!

[SprogletsMum]

The selfie thing gives me the rage. I see so many pictures on fb titled 'selfie of my princesses' which has clearly been taken by their mum from across the room

[Bluebellevergreen]

Shouldn't it be "wrote it wrongly"? Or in a wrong manner?

[Trills]

Hi OutsSelf - some would say "wrote it wrongly" - it depends on your beliefs regarding the use of adverbs. I think "wrote it wrong" makes a stronger ending to the sentence.

[motherinferior]

It is also not 'taken out of context' if you just decide later it was a bit unfortunate and you shouldn't have said it.

[motherinferior]

How about 'you just wrote the wrong word'? Actually strengthens the point?

[Trills]

It is taken out of context if you say "I'm easy" when people ask if you prefer Assam or English Breakfast and they use it to suggest that you are sexually promiscuous.

[Trills]

"Wrote the wrong word" is pretty good.

"It's not a typo it's just the wrong word" would also have been good.

BUT sometimes non-typos come in the form of misspellings rather than entirely-different words.

[Eolian]

Yy to all the above. A poster accused me of taking her words out of context recently. No. I quoted the whole stupid thing you said. How is that out of context?

The wrong/wrongly thing is interesting. I guess it's arguable that if you use 'wrong', it is describing 'it', whereas if you use 'wrongly', it's describing how you wrote. I'm a bit of a stickler but I think 'wrong' sounds better in that sentence.

[Trills]

Thanks - glad I'm not the only one who likes my sentence.

I hear it in my head pushing down on the last word.

"You did it wrong "

[AgentProvocateur]

Yes, to all of the above.

[Rockpebblestone]

Don't agree.

If someone types something incorrectly, no matter what the reason, it is still a typographical error. Thus explaining it as a 'typo' is correct.

Splitting hairs over the definition regarding the reason for the mistake just seems mean to me. Is is somehow more excusable for the fingers to make the mistake out of a lack of dexterity than the memory to make a mistake regarding how something is spelt? I don't think so particularly.

[Rockpebblestone]

Spot the typo!

[SoupDragon]

With the advent of autocorrect, typos turn themselves into "just the wrong word" with no further input from the person typing. Thus is is a typo on the part of the person typing.

[StealthPolarBear]

Sprog let I suspect in a year or two we'll be told the word self has evolved to mean an image captured electronically. The word 'photograph' will be relegated to the same box as 'film' that has been replaced by 'movie'.

[MrsNuckyThompson]

I agree OP.

There is a typo (typographical error when you just hit the wrong key/missed a key etc) and a spelling mistake where you just don't know how to spell.

Big difference

[ErrolTheDragon]

But it's not always possible to tell a typo from a mis-spelling, especially a typo mangled by autocorrect.

Discrete instead of discreet or vv could be a typo. Rein might be a typo for reign, less likely the other way round. Unfortunately the more mistakes made, for whatever reason, the more likely people will become confused as to which is correct.

[Rockpebblestone]

"A typographical error (often shortened to typo) is a mistake made in the typing process (such as a spelling mistake) of printed material. Historically, this referred to mistakes in manual type-setting (typography)."
Typographical error - Wikipedia

So Wikipedia agree with me...

[scaryclown]

You wrote it INCORRECTLY .its an adverb. Wrong is a state..to be wrong. writing something incorrectly makes it wrong.

Honestrly...

[NewtScamandersNaughtyNiffler]

Also - it's only a selfie if the person in the picture took it THEMSELVES

Yes this. A million times this.

A Facebook group I was on Briefly used to have a "best selfie contest" as if that wasn't bad enough the winning 'selfie' was nearly always of someone's dog or baby. Used to give me the rage