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View synonyms for miscount

miscount

[ verb mis-kount; noun mis-kount ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to count or calculate erroneously.


noun

  1. an erroneous counting; miscalculation.

miscount

/ ˌmɪsˈkaʊnt /

verb

  1. to count or calculate incorrectly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a false count or calculation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of miscount1

1350–1400; mis- 1 + count 1; replacing Middle English mesconten < Middle French mesconter
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Example Sentences

Additionally, there can be technical miscommunications between the ad servers that would lead to miscounts.

From Digiday

To one unfamiliar with the score this must always sound as if the horn player had made a miscount and entered at the wrong place.

Morgan said in joke that there was a miscount, and that he actually received only ninety-nine blows.

So the two Kentucky officers went ashore, each grumbling to the other about some "miscount."

Was there not some miscount, and was it not fifteen instead?

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