misname
/ˈmɪsneɪm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
Example Sentences
- "Like the name Macon Dead, it is a misname imposed by someone with no concern about the consequences."
- "And it was a misname, because the woman who stood before him now in all her naked glory presented a picture beauteous beyond belief—to Vagn, leastways."
- "Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers."
- "Near-synonym: misnomer"
- "Elsewhere is pain in looking back on the blotted page misnamed Experience."
- "The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name English misname From mis- + name.