On the other hand https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=syncophantic&y...

GOP wrote syncophantic, with an n. Which is not a word. Well, not a known word at least.

They were pointing out a typo ("syncophantic").

It wasn't so much pointing it out as a typo as making myself clear.

When suggesting a word is not what the writer meant, when it was also not the word that the writer wrote, it seemed wise to clarify exactly what I was talking about.