miscount
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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miscounts,
present (3rd person singular)
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miscounted,
past participle, past
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miscounting
present participle
noun
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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miscountsimple
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miscountssimple
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have miscountedperfect
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has miscountedperfect
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am miscountingprogressive
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are miscountingprogressive
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is miscountingprogressive
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have been miscountingperfect progressive
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has been miscountingperfect progressive
Past
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miscountedsimple
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had miscountedperfect
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was miscountingprogressive
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were miscountingprogressive
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had been miscountingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of miscount
1350–1400; mis- 1 + count 1; replacing Middle English mesconten < Middle French mesconter
Vocabulary lists containing miscount
Example Sentences
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The record suggests a miscount, possibly several miscounts among Pearblossom and its neighboring desert hamlets stretching east to the San Bernardino County line: Littlerock, Llano, Lake Los Angeles and Sun Village.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The audit concluded there was no evidence of a miscount or fraud.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
“At least if there’s a miscount you can discover it,” she said.
From Fox News ● May 26, 2020
“Moreover, the assertion that the behavior in this case constituted minor miscount is frankly absurd,” Myerberg wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
But it is no use, we listen for every explosion that comes close, miscount the tricks, and fail to follow suit.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The record suggests a miscount, possibly several miscounts among Pearblossom and its neighboring desert hamlets stretching east to the San Bernardino County line: Littlerock, Llano, Lake Los Angeles and Sun Village.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Some of it was later recovered and often these reports are attributed to human error, such as miscounts or improper documentation,” Capt. Andrew Wood said in a written statement.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Maine's analysis found that the Census Bureau's demonstration data on certain age and gender groups had error rates of more than 100%, which the letter warned would leave areas "vulnerable to large miscounts."
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2020
A United States Government Accountability Office report last year enumerated many flaws in the system that could lead to payment miscounts and confusion.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2019
The author counts over money, miscounts it, then in counting forgets all about it, puts the money away and continues the reading of Yorick.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
"Ewe can't count Jez", writes the Daily Star, reporting Jeremy Clarkson has been "left red-faced" after police informed the television personality that he had miscounted the number of sheep in his fields.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
But when Emily visits Stephanie, who’s locked away in her hotel room on house arrest like a twee Rapunzel, it becomes clear that the players have been miscounted.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Prosecutors also suggested the poker player could have simply miscounted his earnings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
The bureau’s data did not reveal which communities in each state were miscounted.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022
In band he miscounted the rests and came in at the wrong time, the only trumpet playing in a measure that was supposed to be all flutes.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The miscounting was attributed to patchy record-keeping and suspicions that some families may have tried to hide the deaths of elderly relatives in order to claim their pensions.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Many other demonstrators were simply wary of the kind of vote miscounting, campaign overspending and electoral pressure tactics that were common in Mexico before the independent electoral agency was created in the 1990s.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Yet in 2010, the bureau managed to do substantially better, reporting no such miscounting.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022
As temperatures warm, cicadas may also be getting their tiny antennae crossed, miscounting the years entirely.
From Salon ● May 11, 2021
After twice miscounting the sum, he threw the whole to his daughter, and saying, in a stern voice, "Pay the rascal, and let him leave the house instantly!" he strode out of the room.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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