Wrength
Wrength is a neologism meaning "the state or fact of being wrong." It is a back-formation of such words as "length" (the state or fact of being long) and "strength" (the state or fact of being strong). The word appears have to have been coined unintendedly, by users who actually believed that it had existed all along (as in the case of the use of "brang" and "brung" as the past tense and past participle, respectively, of the verb "to bring"); occasionally it would appear in such venues as letters to the editor in newspapers. As a result, unlike in the case of many neologisms, no specific individual can be credited with its coining. In addition to its presumptive meaning, the word is sometimes used in magical chants.
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