Usually means: Word mistakenly included in dictionaries.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word ghost word:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. ghost word: Merriam-Webster
  2. ghost word: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ghost word: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ghost word: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ghost word: Vocabulary.com
  6. ghost-word: Wordnik
  7. ghost word: Wiktionary
  8. ghost word: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ghost word: Dictionary.com
  10. Ghost word: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ghost word: Rhymezone
  12. ghost word: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ghost word: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. ghost word: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ghost word: A Word A Day
  2. ghost word: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ghost word)

noun:  (linguistics) A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless (not used in practice), that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work or otherwise listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation, misreading, or typographical error.

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