misscribe

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ scribe.

Verb

misscribe (third-person singular simple present misscribes, present participle misscribing, simple past and past participle misscribed)

1. To write or inscribe incorrectly.
   • 1991, Richard H. Haswell, Gaining ground in college writing, page 201:

     It seems reasonable to interpret this misscribing of common words as a fallout from improvement in other techniques, among them a greater concentration on content, a more automatic scribing of all words, a more rapid rate of production...

   • 2012, Lisa Smedman, The Gilded Rune, →ISBN:

     The key was to speak the two correct words that had been misscribed in the inscription above.

   • 2015 -, Larissa Dubecki, Prick with a Fork: The world's worst waitress spills the beans, →ISBN:

     Or Andrea, who didn't even make it through a single night thanks to a teensy spot of docket misscribing that ...

   • 2017, Katherine Van Wormer, Fred Besthorn, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level, →ISBN:

     Others suggest it is a misscribed derivative of the Persian word for the river Indus or Sindhu.