misenunciate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "The training is not primarily intended for children who merely mispronounce or misenunciate or express themselves inaptly, unidiomatically and incorrectly for reasons other than defects of speech."
- "What common words are usually misenunciated because of failure to open the mouth properly?"
- "In the method recommended here, when the sounds in nonsense combinations are larned no act of attention is required to repeat them, and when once a sequence of sounds which are used as part of a word is easily enunciated it slips into the formerly misenunciated word and makes it correct without any conscious effort on the part of the pupil."
- "It has been my experience that South Africans misenunciate more than half of these vowel sounds."