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misputting

misputting is the present participle and gerund of misput.

misputting is the present participle and gerund of misputt.

Meaning of misput

Verb

misput (third-person singular simple present misputs, present participle misputting, simple past and past participle misput)

  1. (rare, transitive) To put badly or wrongly.
    • It all springs from misputting the problem.1911, The Journal of Philosophy, volume 8, page 586
  2. (US, dialectal, rare, transitive) To put out; to inconvenience or disturb.
    • But I don't like to misput nobody.1995, Janice Holt Giles, The Land Beyond the Mountains, page 134

Meaning of misputt

Verb

misputt (third-person singular simple present misputts, present participle misputting, simple past and past participle misputted)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To putt badly or wrongly.
    • I misputted on the fourth hole.

Questions about misputting

What is misputting the present participle and gerund of?
Misputting is the present participle and gerund of misput.

Words near misputting in the dictionary

  1. mispursuits
  2. misput
  3. misputs
  4. misputt
  5. misputted
  6. misputting
  7. misputts
  8. misqualification
  9. misqualifications
  10. misqualified
  11. misqualifies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misputting (page history and authors); misput (page history and authors); misputt (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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