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misaccount

/mɪsəˈkaʊnt/

misaccount verb: to account badly, wrongfully, or in error.

Verb

misaccount (third-person singular simple present misaccounts, present participle misaccounting, simple past and past participle misaccounted)

  1. (transitive) to account badly, wrongfully, or in error
    • […] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]1846, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Men of Capital - Volume 3

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪsəkaʊnt/

misaccount (plural misaccounts)

  1. A bad or wrong account; an incorrect narrative.
    • Oakley shows how a misaccount arises from “masculine ambivalence" about birth, which obstructs women from producing new accounts.1998, Robbie P. Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth

misaccount meaning in Bengali

misaccount in Bengali

খারাপভাবে, ভুলভাবে, ত্রুটিপূর্ণভাবে হিসাব করা, খারাপ, ভুল হিসাব, একটি ভুল বিবরণ

Forms of misaccount

Verb
third-person singular presentmisaccounts
present participlemisaccounting
past participlemisaccounted
pastmisaccounted
Noun
pluralmisaccounts

Origin of misaccount

From Middle English misaccounten, equivalent to mis- + account.

Questions about misaccount

What does misaccount mean?
Misaccount means to account badly, wrongfully, or in error.
What is misaccount in Bengali?
Misaccount in Bengali is খারাপভাবে, ভুলভাবে, ত্রুটিপূর্ণভাবে হিসাব করা. See Misaccount meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is misaccount?
Misaccount can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce misaccount?
Misaccount is pronounced /mɪsəˈkaʊnt/.
What is the past tense of misaccount?
The past tense of misaccount is misaccounted.

Words near misaccount in the dictionary

  1. misaccentuating
  2. misaccentuation
  3. misaccentuations
  4. misacceptation
  5. misacceptations
  6. misaccount
  7. misaccounted
  8. misaccounting
  9. misaccounts
  10. misaccumulated
  11. misaccumulation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misaccount (page history and authors); misaccount (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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