Wikipedia:Typo Team/Wiktionary cheat sheet

This page has copy-and-paste examples for adding words to Wiktionary when dealing with correctly-spelled words flagged by moss.

If you aren't confident in the definition of a word, you can use {{rfdef|en}} ("en" if it's an English word, otherwise the right language code).

Spelling variant

Compound vs. hyphen vs. two words

For example, teacup, tea-cup, and tea cup. An entry like "tea-cup" which is simply a variant on an existing entry can be added like this:

==English==

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{alternative form of|en|teacup}}

Different letters only

If it were an accepted spelling, "teecup" might have an entry like:

==English==

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{alternative spelling of|en|teacup}}

Abbreviation

Example for "IG":

==English==

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{initialism of|en|inspector general}}

Inflected form of an existing word

Wiktionary uses separate but very short entries for plurals, past tense, etc. so these are easy to add.

If you enable "Add accelerated creation links for common inflections of some words." in your preferences on Wiktionary, you can create inflected forms quickly (using the links present in the headword line of the uninflected lemma — the links will turn green if it is possible to acceleratedly created entries using them).

Plural

For example, if you determine the word "widgets" is the plural form of the noun "widget", you would make a "widgets" entry like this:

==English==

===Noun===
{{head|en|noun form}}

# {{plural of|en|widget}}

Past tense

If you determine "fooed" is the past tense of "foo", you would make "fooed" entry like this:

==English==

===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{en-past of|foo}}

More choices

A full list is at Wiktionary:Category:Grammar form-of templates but a few common choices are:

Adjective - {{superlative of|big}} - biggest
Adjective - {{comparative of|big}} - bigger
Noun - {{agent noun of|teach}} - teacher
Verb - {{present participle of|ping}} - pinging
Verb - {{gerund|walk}} - walking

Main entry for new word

Click one of the buttons like "Noun" or "Verb" on the "create entry" page to get an automatically generated template, with instructions.