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misscoring

misscoring is the present participle and gerund 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 misscoring

What is misscoring the present participle and gerund of?
Misscoring is the present participle and gerund of misscore.

Words near misscoring in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misscoring (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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