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miscount

/mɪsˈkaʊnt/

miscount verb: to count incorrectly.

Verb

miscount (third-person singular simple present miscounts, present participle miscounting, simple past and past participle miscounted)

  1. To count incorrectly.

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪskaʊnt/

miscount (plural miscounts)

  1. An incorrect counting.
    • To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket

miscount meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

miscount in Tamil

தவறாகக் கணக்கிடு

miscount in Urdu

غلط گننا

miscount in Bengali

ভুলভাবে গণনা করা, একটি ভুল গণনা

miscount in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪೆಣಿಕೆ ಮಾಡು, ಎಣಿಕೆದಪ್ಪು, ಲೆಕ್ಕತಪ್ಪು

Forms of miscount

Verb
third-person singular presentmiscounts
present participlemiscounting
past participlemiscounted
pastmiscounted
Noun
pluralmiscounts

Origin of miscount

From Middle English miscounten, equivalent to mis- + count.

Words that rhyme with miscount

Questions about miscount

What does miscount mean?
Miscount means to count incorrectly.
What is miscount in Tamil?
Miscount in Tamil is தவறாகக் கணக்கிடு. See Miscount meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is miscount?
Miscount can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce miscount?
Miscount is pronounced /mɪsˈkaʊnt/.
What is the past tense of miscount?
The past tense of miscount is miscounted.

Words near miscount in the dictionary

  1. miscounselings
  2. miscounselled
  3. miscounselling
  4. miscounsellings
  5. miscounsels
  6. miscount
  7. miscounted
  8. miscounter
  9. miscounters
  10. miscounting
  11. miscountings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miscount (page history and authors); miscount (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miscount (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miscount (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miscount (Kannada 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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