Definition of "misword" []

• To express incorrectly; word improperly. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The typewriter does nothing to cut down on how badly you're going to misword everything - it happens no matter what your writing implement is."
• "The typewriter does nothing to cut down on how badly you're going to misword everything- it happens no matter what your writing implement is."
• "It followed that from the first I viewed him with a strange mixture of rivalry and affection; ready at one moment to quarrel with him and beat him for a misword, and the next to let him beat me if it pleased him."