back-spelling

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Synonyms: back, buck, black, hack, rack, balk, bask, bank, tack, bark, jack, sack

Antonyms: back, buck, black, hack, rack, balk, bask, bank, tack, bark, jack, sack

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Noun

1. An [[unetymological]], often [[hypercorrect]], [[spelling]] of a [[word]] created by [[analogy]] with other words which (usually through [[loss]] of a [[sound]] or its [[phonetic]] [[merger]] with other sounds) have become similar to it.

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