ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Miswrite

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /mɪsˈɹaɪt/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Miswrite is a verb meaning (transitive) To write incorrectly.

Meaning

(transitive) To write incorrectly.

More Meanings

  1. (computing) A failed write operation.

Example Sentences

Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.
1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben, […] but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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Related dictionary entries include misword, misscribe, mistranscribe, misaddress, misnote, misstep.

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