misname
verb (used with object)
to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
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Froissart himself nods occasionally, and on this particular occasion has misnamed the river which flows through the city, which is the Adour.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield