I ran into an interesting variation on the brain being able to recnogzie mispsleled wrods so long as the first and last letters are correct.
char *filename = "XXXXXX"; mkstemp(filename);
One of the resulting runs produced:
-rwx------ 2 dgentry eng 4096 Jul 8 10:41 ufseuL
Why yes, it was useful. Thank you for your efforts, computer.