slip of the tongue
Accidental wrong word
A slip of the tongue is an inadvertent mistake in speaking—saying one word when you meant another, or stumbling over sounds: I called my teacher "Mom" by slip of the tongue.
The phrase suggests the error reveals something unintended, whether simple confusion or, in Freudian interpretation, unconscious thought.
- spoonerismAccidental sound transposition
- malapropismSound-alike word confusion
- word substitutionExchanging terms in text
- wrong wordUnintended vocabulary error
- stumbleLose footing momentarily
mondegreen · trip · brain fart · gaffe · foot in mouth · mispronunciation · eggcorn · misstatement · mistake · hypercorrection · solecism · blunder · fumble · lapse · oops · verbal · blurt · speaking out of turn
- Freudian slipsspeech error
- speech errorsmispronunciation, malapropism, malapropisms, spoonerism, spoonerisms
- oopsoops, whoops, whoopsie, oopsie, woopsie
- tonguetip, root, blade, dorsum, frenulum
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- Psych Jokesdefense mechanism, free association, psychobabble, couch gags
mode of error
slip of the tonguetypo
Printing mistake
slip of the pen · typographical error · typing mistake · spelling mistake · clerical error
slip, tongue, slipping, slips, tongues, slipped, tongue-tied, tongued, slippy