Transposition describes an alteration in the order or a change in the position of letters, syllables, words, phrases and/or passages between the exemplar and the copy.
Cf. types of errors, addition, omission, and text.
Reference
– Havet, Louis. 1911. Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins. Paris: Hachette.
In other languages
GE: Umstellung
FR: transposition
IT: trasposizione