Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misengineer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mis-en-gi-neer
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To engineer badly or wrongly.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From mis- + engineer.

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Questions

What does misengineer mean?
To engineer badly or wrongly.
Where does misengineer come from?
From mis- + engineer.

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