Meanings
present singular third person misscribes · participle present misscribing · participle past misscribed · past misscribed
- To write or inscribe incorrectly.
The key was to speak the two correct words that had been misscribed in the inscription above.
2012, Lisa Smedman, The Gilded Rune, →ISBN3 more examples
It seems reasonable to interpret this misscribing of common words as a fallout from improvement in other techniques, among them a greater concentration on content, a more automatic scribing of all words, a more rapid rate of production...
1991, Richard H. Haswell, Gaining ground in college writing, page 201Or Andrea, who didn't even make it through a single night thanks to a teensy spot of docket misscribing that ...
2015 -, Larissa Dubecki, Prick with a Fork: The world's worst waitress spills the beans, →ISBNOthers suggest it is a misscribed derivative of the Persian word for the river Indus or Sindhu.
2017, Katherine Van Wormer, Fred Besthorn, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level, →ISBN
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misscribe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misscribe
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