Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ghost_word

1 sense of ghost word

Sense 1
ghost word -- (a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error)
       => form, word form, signifier, descriptor -- (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached")