miscount

[verb mis-kount; noun mis-kount]

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verb (used with or without object)

to count or calculate erroneously.

noun

an erroneous counting; miscalculation.

Origin of miscount

1350–1400; mis-¹ + count¹; replacing Middle English mesconten < Middle French mesconter

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Related Words for miscount

error, mistake

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Historical Examples of miscount

Was there not some miscount, and was it not fifteen instead?
The Lure of the Mask
Harold MacGrath
Morgan said in joke that there was a miscount, and that he actually received only ninety-nine blows.
Hero Stories from American History
Albert F. Blaisdell
So the two Kentucky officers went ashore, each grumbling to the other about some "miscount."
Strange Stories of the Great Valley
Abbie Johnston Grosvenor
To one unfamiliar with the score this must always sound as if the horn player had made a miscount and entered at the wrong place.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3)
Alexander Wheelock Thayer

British Dictionary definitions for miscount

miscount

verb

to count or calculate incorrectly

noun

a false count or calculation

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Word Origin and History for miscount

late 14c., from Old French mesconter "give a false statement; miscalculate, be wrong in reckoning;" see mis- (2) + count (v). Related: Miscounted; miscounting.

1580s, from mis- (1) + count (n.).