misgroup

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ group.

Verb

misgroup (third-person singular simple present misgroups, present participle misgrouping, simple past and past participle misgrouped)

1. (transitive) To group wrongly.
   • 1991, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Gelek Rimpoche, Lobsang Phuntshog, Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan:

     Consequently, the burden of grouping the syllables into words falls entirely on the reader, and it is very common for beginners to misgroup the syllables and create horrendous translations […]

   • 2008, Samuel Harris Payne, Advances in Computational Mass Spectrometry:

     Any fixed width cluster has the potential to misgroup peptides from multiple genes into a single group.

Anagrams

• groupism