misvocalizing

Verb

misvocalize (third-person singular simple present misvocalizes, present participle misvocalizing, simple past and past participle misvocalized)

1. To vocalize incorrectly.
   • Notice further that Stuart either misvocalizes or miscounts the third line of the tri-colon (wayiqrabu gives ten syllables; Stuart vocalizes wayi-qrab but still gives the syllable count as ten);1981, Gordon Douglas Young, Ugarit in Retrospect, page 120