Fictitious entries

fictional hamlet in Colchester in Delaware County, New York, USA

deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work

thumb|right|alt=Photo of a large, flat field, surrounded by trees in the far distance.|View of an empty field from Bold Lane in Aughton, Lancashire|Aughton, looking north towards the supposed location of Argleton. Argleton was a phantom settlement that appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth but was later removed by Google. The supposed location of Argleton was between the A59 road and Town Green railway station within the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England, in an area of empty fields. Data from Google is used by other online information services, which consequently treated A

Wikipedia hoax in 2012

collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World

Wikipedia hoax

Portuguese Wikipedia hoax article

settlement that appears on a map but does not actually exist

fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map

The word dord is a dictionary error in lexicography. It was accidentally created, as a ghost word, by the staff of G. and C. Merriam Company (now part of Merriam-Webster) in the New International Dictionary, second edition (1934). That dictionary defined the term as a synonym for density used in physics and chemistry in the following way: dord (dôrd), n. Physics & Chem. Density.

fictional character

Apopudobalia (; ἀπο- + ποδός + ball + -ία) is a fictional sport that was the subject of a famous fictitious entry by the German ancient historian Mischa Meier in Der neue Pauly Enzyklopaedie der Antike, edited by H. Cancik and H. Schneider, vol. 1 (Stuttgart, 1996, ), which gives a description of an ancient Greco-Roman sport that anticipates modern soccer. The article goes on to cite suitably sparse documentation for the nonexistent sport (this includes a Festschrift to one M. Sammer), and to assert that a Roman form of the game enjoyed a certain popularity amongst the Roman legions, and conse

ficitious, rodent-like, rock-eating louse

fictional towns

thumb|The original fictitious entry from 1903 __NOTOC__ Zzxjoanw ( ) is a fictitious entry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years. It referred to a purported Māori word meaning "drum", "fife", or "conclusion".