eggcorn
noun/ˈɛɡkɔːn/UK/ˈɛɡkɔɹn/CA/ˈeɪɡkɔɹn/
Etymology
Suggested by British-American linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum following a discussion on the Language Log website on September 23, 2003, by American linguist Mark Liberman, about a woman who had long believed the word acorn to be egg corn.
Definitions
A word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or…
A word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase either on its own or as part of a set expression
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eggcorn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA