Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misnested

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: misnest-ed
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Incorrectly nested.

verb

simple past and past participle of misnest

Example Sentences

"misnested parentheses"
"[…] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes."
"Netscape is of course pretty buggy, but it generally handles nested tables OK so I suspect your problem is misnested or unclosed table tags […]"

Etymology

From mis- + nested.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Questions

What does misnested mean?: Incorrectly nested.
Where does misnested come from?: From mis- + nested.

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