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misscores

misscores is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misscore.

Meaning of misscore

Verb

misscore (third-person singular simple present misscores, present participle misscoring, simple past and past participle misscored)

  1. To assign the wrong score to.
    • Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure, tended to misscore as stage 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content.1994, Bill Puka, Moral Development: New research in moral development, page 11

Questions about misscores

What is misscores the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misscores is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misscore.

Words near misscores in the dictionary

  1. misschools
  2. missclassification
  3. missclassified
  4. misscore
  5. misscored
  6. misscores
  7. misscoring
  8. misscreen
  9. misscreened
  10. misscreening
  11. misscreens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misscores (page history and authors); misscore (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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