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mistranscribing

mistranscribing is the present participle and gerund of mistranscribe.

Meaning of mistranscribe

Verb

mistranscribe (third-person singular simple present mistranscribes, present participle mistranscribing, simple past and past participle mistranscribed)

  1. (transitive) To transcribe incorrectly.
    • Now a recently published compendium of his personal notebooks is coming under attack from two critics who say that the editor of the volume, Robert Faggen, mistranscribed hundreds, if not thousands, of Frost’s words.2008 January 22, Motoko Rich, “Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute”, in New York Times

Questions about mistranscribing

What is mistranscribing the present participle and gerund of?
Mistranscribing is the present participle and gerund of mistranscribe.

Words near mistranscribing in the dictionary

  1. mistransactions
  2. mistransacts
  3. mistranscribe
  4. mistranscribed
  5. mistranscribes
  6. mistranscribing
  7. mistranscript
  8. mistranscription
  9. mistranscriptions
  10. mistranscripts
  11. mistransfer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistranscribing (page history and authors); mistranscribe (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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