eggcorn in English
noun
1
a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line ).
By the way, there seems to be a little discrepancy in what an eggcorn actually is.
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1. Synonyms for Colloquialism include eggcorn, expression, idiom, informality, vulgarism, common term, popular expression, jargon, lingo and language
2. Here is the list of all the English words ending with CORN grouped by number of letters: corn, acorn, scorn, Alcorn, bicorn, alicorn, Bescorn, eggcorn, muncorn