misdecipher
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To decipher incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Then a number of these mistakes are corrected and lines necessary for sense recovered by modern editors from the previous editions themselves, which effectually shows that the plays were transcribed, and that these mistakes were largely made from misdeciphering the manuscript, as no printer, however bad, could possibly have made them if he had print to copy from."
- "Spinden completely misdeciphers this I. S. He gives two variant readings, both based upon incorrect decipherments of the terminal date, as follows:"
- "The supplementary puzzles, like the half-burned note whose message we decipher (or misdecipher) in Death in Ecstasy, do not further the main investigation, and can send us down a blind alley or after a red herring."
- "I don't know how people misdecipher the loving beats of a heart"