misaccount

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/mɪsəˈkaʊnt//ˈmɪsəkaʊnt/

verb

to account badly, wrongfully, or in error

OriginMiddle English misaccounten →
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Meanings

verbmisaccount (third-person singular simple present misaccounts, present participle misaccounting, simple past and past participle misaccounted)

present singular third person misaccounts · participle present misaccounting · participle past misaccounted · past misaccounted

  1. transitiveto account badly, wrongfully, or in error

    […] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]

    1846, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Men of Capital - Volume 3
nounmisaccount (plural misaccounts)

plural misaccounts

  1. A bad or wrong account; an incorrect narrative.

    Oakley shows how a misaccount arises from “masculine ambivalence" about birth, which obstructs women from producing new accounts.

    1998, Robbie P. Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmisaccounten
  2. Englishmisaccount

From Middle English misaccounten, equivalent to mis- + account.

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APA

misaccount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misaccount

MLA

“misaccount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misaccount. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misaccount,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misaccount.

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