thread of words that are definitely words that my browser dictionary thinks are not words (inspired by the fact that I have a fresh dictionary for this new browser profile that I made to avoid twitter distraction) ie times when spellcheck is wrong
Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects
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to be clear, these are for words that I would assume should already be in a dictionary, or that I create via obvious word+suffix (like "ongoingly") not for the times I *intentionally* coin a new word via portmanteau or etymology, eg:
"ongoingly" is a word
"proprioception" is a word
"interroception" is a word
"oof" is a word
"relatedly" is a word
"eg" is a word
"ie" is a word
"chakra" is a word
"sacral" is a word
"organize" is a word
"remixable" is a word
"cowork" is a word
"denotationally" is a word
"eternalistic" is a word
"freestyling" is a word
"comboing" is a word (although I'm really not surprised this one isn't in the dictionary as its an awkward-to-write (tho not to say!) verb conjugation of a slang noun - "combo" is already in there though!)
"tempeh" is a word (!!)
"memetics" is a word
"journalling" is a word
"notificationless" is a word
"psychotechnologies" is a word
"forcy" is a word "allowy" is a word
"ahh" is a word
"essentialism" is a word
"proto-" is a prefix
"misattunedly" is a word
"randos" is a word
"lol" is a word
"10am" is not a word but shouldn't have a spellcheck underline. maybe it's a word? what are words 🤨
"haha" is a word (seriously I think that spellcheck thinks all writing is for fucking highschool essays) ...."highschool" is a word
"tho" is a word
"convo" is a word
"superbugs" is a word, unfortunately
"doozy" is a word
"afaict" is a word "afaik" is a word (huh, the dictionary knew this one in all-caps, as AFAIK) "afaicr" is a word
"ymmv" is a word (also in the dictionary in all-caps)
"exaptation" is a word (a neologism, but coined in 1982 and has 20k papers about it so it should be in fucking dictionaries by now)
"googleable" is a word
"improvisationally" is a word
"attunement" is a word
"dgaf" is a word
"trippy" is a word
"prescriptivism" is a word 🤣
"fwiw" is a word (dictionary already had "FWIW", fwiw)
"attentional" is a word
"atm" is a word
"noonish" is a word
"selfhood" is a word
"ontologies" is a word
"reframe" is a word
"melatonin" is a word
"shoutout" is a word
"nother" is a whole nother word
"idiolects" is a word
"vid" is a word
"breathwork" is a word
"waxings" is a word "wanings" is a word
"timezones" is a word wtf
"wtf" is a word
"dimorphism" is a word
"reconsolidation" is a word
"mmm" is a word
"counteractiveness" is a word
"repurpose" is a word (huh, my dictionary already had "repurposed")
"superorganism" is a word
"deconfuse" is a word
"cromulent" is a word 😉
"interpersonally" is a word
"transactionality" is a word
"interestingness" is a word
"bodymind" is a word
"olympic" is a word (doesn't need to be capitalized; here's the wikipedia article on olympic weightlifting)
"fractally" is a word
"superorganisms" is a word
"tbh" is a word
"natured" is a word (in the context of "good-natured", "natured" got underlined)
for fuck's sake, if I add a word to my dictionary, then a version of that same word WITH THE FIRST LETTER CAPITALIZED IS ALSO A FUCKING WORD
"extraverted" is a word (some people claim this is the correct spelling; I'm not here to claim it's more correct than "extroverted" but it's an option. there's also extrꜵverted if you want a third more complex thing)
"sensemaking" is a word
"whatevers" is a word
"unfuddlers" is a word
"memeplex" is a word
"xenobiology" is a word
"trustable" is a word
"therapizer" is a word
"fixy" is a word
"overgeneralization(s)" is a word
"-ness" is a word
"intentionality" is definitely a word
"modularize" is a word
"goodharting" is a word
"unconsensual" is a word google results have 10× as many for "nonconsensual", which is also a word and which is *also* not in my dictionary. also once I refactored the sentence apparently I wanted "nonconsensually" which is also a word
"prereqs" is a word "prereq" too ofc, while I'm at it
"covid" is a word (whoa, my dictionary has "COVID"—I was assuming it was waaaay older than that based on all the other stuff it didn't have) (not sure what to do with stuff like "waaaay" btw. I think I'm gonna add it to my dict so no squiggle but not usually mention it here)
"subcase" is a word
"errorness" is a word
"crazymaking" is a word
"suboptimal" is a word
"attractors" is a word ("attractor" is a word)
"ultimator" is a word (someone issuing an ultimatum)
"intergroup" is a word
"couldn't've" is a word
"passionfruit" is a word
"ensmoothening" is a word
"panarchy" is a word
"offramps" is a word
"memetic" is a word (amazed that it took so long for this one to come up, as "meme" is a top candidate of mine for the most important neologism of the last century)
"metamodern" is a word
"overton" (window) is a word
"reparent" is a word
"dealbreaker" is a word
"subtweeting" is a word +"subtweet" +"subtweeted"
"shillage" is a word and it could use some shillage
"micromoments" is a word
"mis" is a word/prefix (I wanted to write "(mis)understanding" and "mis" got underlined)
"bruh" is a word
"rushedly" is a word
"triggery" is a word
"flinchy" is a word
"reacty" is a word
"regranting" is a word thanks to FTX
"prechosen" is a word
"pomo" is a word and so is "pomodoro"
"yall" is a word and doesn't have to have an apostrophe, especially if you use the Singlish version
..."Singlish" is a word
"disconfirm" is a word
"degrowth" is a word
"gifs" is a word
"onboarding" is a word
"walkthrough" is a word
"vibing" is a word ofc
"derpy" is a word
"algorithmically" is a word (wow, surprised this wasn't in there yet!)
"hemispherically" is a word
"blindspot" is a word
"woah" is a word
(kindred) "spiritness" is a word
"nerdsniped" is a word
"welp" is a word (it was formed the same way as "yep" and "nope"!)
"updatable" is a word tho I was initially inclined to spell it "updateable" but see "relatable" and "debatable"
"perspectival" is a word
"baller" is a word
"tradeoff" is a word and it doesn't need a hyphen any more than "firetruck" or "cupboard" or "email"
"imo" is a word
"holodeck" is a word
"phenomenologically" is a word already good: "phenomenon" "phenomenology" "phenomenological" surely another suffix is fine 😛
"limitedly" is a word
"ambiently" is a word
"phlogiston" is a word even tho phlogiston is not a thing
"mindblown" is a word if "windswept" is a word, which it is
"thx" is a spelling for "thanks"
"grift" is a word let's put "grifter" & "grifting" in the dictionary while I'm at it
"apologizer" is a word (you might think it'd be "apologist" but that has different vibes)
"sus" is a mildly sus word but it's a word
"ontologically" is a word
(self-)"rederivingly" is a word this is one of my absurder constructions, but I like it a lot
"comms" is a word and has been for a century
"modus tollens" is two words "modus ponens" is too they're Latin but they're part of English now too
"envyase" is a word I formed through the usual morpheme+suffix process ("X-ase" means "enzyme that breaks down X") but it's a bit of a stretch and maybe should be envase? enviase?
"unfixable" is a word
"BATNA" is a word eventually it will probably be lowercase but apparently I still spell it uppercase atm
"makerspace" is a word
"noncoercive" is a word
"altho" is a word
"lil" is a word
"gnosis" is a word (I discovered just now that it's greek for knowledge, but it's in english via gnosticism (which spellcheck thinks is a word but only if I capitalized it))
"internets" is a word intriguing how some nouns aren't seen as pluralizable (which *sigh* is also a word)
"yalls" is a word, and upon reflection it doesn't need the second apostrophe either seriously it doesn't. it can just be a word. that seems like a better way for language to function at this point.
"rivalrous" is a word (& nonrivalrous & antirivalrous while I'm at it)
"informationally" is a word
"bubbliness" is a word
"worldchangers" is a word
"satisficing" is a word
"regurgitations" is a word
"neologizing" is a word
"obviouser" is a word it's kind of ugly but I just used it without thinking so it's clearly a word. lots of existing words are also ugly—still words
"memetically" is a word
"reductionism" is a word (very surprised by this one!)
"rederived" is a word
"interruptible" is a word (weirdly the dictionary already has "uninterruptible")
"couldness" is a word (cc @m_ashcroft & @tasshinfogleman) expandingawareness.org/blog/couldness…
@m_ashcroft @tasshinfogleman "unshippedness" is a word
"stackable" is a word
"parentheticals" is a word
"memeing" is a word and yes it's (increasingly) spelled like that it didn't used to be (very old results are 100% unrelated, they're a proper name or a mis-OCR; "meme" wasn't coined til 1976) knowyourmeme.com/memes/memeing
"timebox" is a word
"mindblowing" is a word
"compressions" is a word I have tweeted a bunch of times today
"connotationally" is a word
"fucky" is a word
"neuroplasticity" is a word wtf
"cucked" is a word and this is what I think it means as a general thing
"localizable" is a word
"hyperstitioneers" is a word that I found myself using (in response to someone else who used it in a reply to me—maybe the first time it's been used) after having looked up "hyperstition" which is also not yet in my dictionary but is a more established and googleable word
"blindspots" is a word
"tulpa" is a word and so is "tulpamancy" (and "-mancy" as a hyphenated suffix while we're at it)
"nondual" is a word (surprised I hadn't added this already)
"lightbulb" and "checkmark" and "mockup" are all words seriously, you think you can't smoosh those together when we have "cupboard" and "firetruck" with no hyphen? ..."smoosh" is also a word.
"themself" is a word. if we're gonna have singular they, we're gonna have "themself". matter of time ha, yep, already happening: (currently 1/700 as much as "themselves" but it should stay below 1/10 since most "they" isn't singular anyway)
"defs" is a word
"tryna" is a word
"synchronicities" is a word synchronicities are also as real as things are (which is to say kinda) tho a synchronicity is not a thing youtube.com/watch?v=xECcdH…
"bangers" is a word and can refer either to sausages or to hits (songs, tweets, etc)
"improvving" is a word formed the exact same way as "revving"
"normativity" is a word
"neuro" is a word/prefix
"edenic" is a word I coined just now and it means "of or pertaining to Eden" — oh wait, it already exists as such just not in this spellcheck see? words have patterns, they get coined in parallel by the creative rules of language
"norming" is a word I am norming
"towardsness" and "awayness" are words and I wrote a blog post about them: malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
"soapboxing" is a word
"unkillable" and "uncorrupted" are both words
"egregore" is a word (surprised I hadn't added this one already)
"uncited" is a word
"recurse" is a word for those of us strange enough to think that things aren't cursed enough already
"memoryhole" is a word but maybe it would be funny if I didn't add it to my dictionary and ended up coming back to add it again later 😂
"recombobulate" is a word as is "recombobulation". don't believe the myth that only some words seen in real use are real.
"enactually" is a word (I mostly stopped this thread because I switched computers and so my browser spellcheck got reset and I couldn't just use it as the source of new-word-ness, but it was a fun game for some months)
