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Definition: Miscount |
MiscountNoun1. An inaccurate count. Verb1. Count wrongly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "miscount" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Error | Err; be -in error; Adjective:, be mistaken; Verb: be deceived; (duped); mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error; Noun: be in the wrong, blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate; (misjudge). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Miscount |
| Etymologies containing "miscount": Miscompute. (references) |
| "Miscount" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Miscount" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
miscount | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "miscount"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llogaritje e gabuar (miscalculation), llogaris me gabim, llogaris gabimisht, lajthitje (aberration, craze, error, Miss, mistake, oversight). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грешка при броене, греша в изчисленията. (various references) | |
Czech | přepoèítat se (miscalculate), špatnì spoèítat. (various references) | |
Farsi | غلطشمردن , بدحساب کردن , بدتعبیرکردن (Misconsture, Misread). (various references) | |
Finnish | laskea väärin (miscalculate). (various references) | |
German | verzählen (to miscount), sich verzählen (count wrongly), falsch zählen, falsch berechnen (miscalculate, to miscount). (various references) | |
Greek | εσφαλμένη αρίθμηση, λανθασμένο μέτρημα, αριθμώ κακώσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | számolási hiba, rossz számolás, összeadási hiba. (various references) | |
Indonesian | salah hitung (miscalculation). (various references) | |
Italian | conteggio errato. (various references) | |
Manx | mee-choontey (misreckon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iscountmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | soma errada, erro de contas, erro de cálculo (miscalculation), errar a soma, contar mal, contar erradamente. (various references) | |
Romanian | numãrãtoare greşitã. (various references) | |
Russian | ошибка в счете, ошибаться при подсчете, обсчитаться (miscalculate), неправильный подсчет, просчет (miscalculation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaračunati se, pogrešno računati, pogrešno računanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | error de cuenta, equivocarse en la cuenta, contar mal. (various references) | |
Swedish | räkna fel, felräkning (miscalculation). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanlış saymak (misreckon), yanlış sayma, yanlış hesaplamak (miscalculate, misreckon), yanlış hesap (miscalculation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | прорахунок (miscalculation), прораховуватися (miscalculate). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đếm sai. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "miscount": miscounted, miscounting, miscounts. (additional references) | |
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"Miscount" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mesclun, midcourt, Mishcon, Mosconi, muscon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "miscount" (pronounced mi"skou"nt) |
| 5 | -s k ou" n t | discount. |
| 4 | -k ou" n t | account, count, recount. |
| 3 | -ou" n t | amount, Mount, surmount. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-m-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: coniums, suction. | |
-2 letters: coitus, conium, counts, cousin, cumins, custom, cutins, inmost, miscut, monist, mounts, mucins, muonic, mutons, ostium, outsin, sitcom, tocsin, tonics, tunics. | |
-3 letters: cions, coins, conus, count, cumin, cutin, cutis, icons, ictus, incus, mints, minus, moist, mount, mucin, munis, muons, music, muton, notum, omits, onium, ontic, osmic, scion, scout, snout, sonic, stoic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-m-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: aconitums, columnist, communist, costuming, miscounts. | |
+2 letters: columnists, combusting, combustion, comminutes, communists, consortium, continuums, misconduct, miscounted, undomestic. | |
+3 letters: accustoming, coatimundis, columnistic, combustions, communalist, communistic, communities, consortiums, consumerist, consumption, consumptive, contumacies, contumelies, coterminous, cumulations, customising, customizing, maculations, misconducts, misconstrue, miscounting, misfunction, mistouching, neuroticism, outmuscling, outscheming. | |
+4 letters: anticonsumer, calumniators, cementitious, comminutions, communalists, communicants, communicates, commutations, compunctions, compunctious, computations, computerniks, consumerists, consummating, consummation, consummative, consumptions, consumptives, conterminous, contumacious, contumelious, countermines, culminations, emasculation, euchromatins, malfunctions, mercurations, micturitions, miscomputing, misconducted, misconstrued, misconstrues, miseducation, misfunctions, mucoproteins, neurochemist, neuroticisms, noctambulist, noncommunist, obscurantism, rambunctious, reductionism, subcommunity, tumefactions. | |
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