misscribe

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verb

To write or inscribe incorrectly.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbmisscribe (third-person singular simple present misscribes, present participle misscribing, simple past and past participle misscribed)

present singular third person misscribes · participle present misscribing · participle past misscribed · past misscribed

  1. 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, →ISBN
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    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 201

    Or 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, →ISBN

    Others 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

Origin

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APA

misscribe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misscribe

MLA

“misscribe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misscribe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misscribe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misscribe.

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