Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misduplication

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-du-pli-ca-tion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

incorrect duplication

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"According to our previous paper, proton tunneling lead to the misduplication of DNA; that is, in the case of excitation of an electron by light the misduplication of DNA by means of the proton tunneling can more easily occur in the adenine-thymine pair than in the guanine-cytosine pair."
"There is change, but the changes arise out of slight misduplications of the pattern rather than from essential antagonisms."
"When I saw those words I guess I lost my concentration and thought you were thinking something else. Sorry for the misduplication."

Etymology

From mis- + duplication.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Usage

Inflected Forms

misduplications (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

misduplicate

Questions

What does misduplication mean?: incorrect duplication
Where does misduplication come from?: From mis- + duplication.

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