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mispacing

mispacing is the present participle and gerund of mispace.

Meaning of mispace

Verb

mispace (third-person singular simple present mispaces, present participle mispacing, simple past and past participle mispaced)

  1. To do (something) at the wrong pace or speed.
    • The mispacing of the 30-song set would have been a disaster if Denver didn't have such a rich catalog.1981 August 22, Peter Krasilovsky, “Talent In Action: John Denver”, in Billboard, volume 93, number 33
  2. To pace or step incorrectly.
    • Had I mispronounced one of the correct words, mispaced one of the steps, forgotten one of the essential herbs?1999, Mary Brown, The Unlikely Ones, page 422

Questions about mispacing

What is mispacing the present participle and gerund of?
Mispacing is the present participle and gerund of mispace.

Words near mispacing in the dictionary

  1. misozoic
  2. misozuke
  3. mispace
  4. mispaced
  5. mispaces
  6. mispacing
  7. mispack
  8. mispackage
  9. mispackaged
  10. mispackages
  11. mispackaging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispacing (page history and authors); mispace (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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