misinflect
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To inflect incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns."
- "In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns)."
- "This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion."
- "They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it."