misvocalize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To vocalize incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Notice further that Stuart either misvocalizes or miscounts the third line of the tri-colon (wayiqrabu gives ten syllables; Stuart vocalizes wayi-qrab but still gives the syllable count as ten);"
- "For example, in the OT vowels of the Hebrew word for “shame” ( בושה) served to misvocalize Ashtart to Ashtoreth (1 Kgs 11:5, 33), Baal to Bosheth (Hos 9:10), and Melek to Molech (Jer 32:35; 2 Kgs 23:10)."
- "The name later came to be misvocalized and misconstrued as if there were such a pagan god."