to miscount

Examples

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• I don't understand what the point of a recount is; does he really think the votes were miscounted by machine the first time?

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• Or is it possible that this survey managed to miscount the number of singles who are living with roommates?

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• So I guess I just miscounted, you know?

  Girl in Progress (2012)

• I thought I had them all but, uh, I must have miscounted.

  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

• I... it was a slip, like I miscounted.

  Girl in Progress (2012)

• The Ohio voting machines have miscounted every election since 2000.

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• We didn't forget him, we just miscounted.

  Home Alone (1990)

• It turned out they'd miscounted and they had one seat in first class.

• 1,000 MSA ballots may have been miscounted; officials say the problem is now fixed.

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• Now you have Bush and Gore lawyers going all across the country looking for uncounted or miscounted ballots.

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Synonyms

M

to miscalculate

vsto miscount

23 4.5

To get an amount or time wrong

record item totals incorrectly instead of broader math errors

M

to misestimate

vsto miscount

1 6.5

Give a wrong idea of how big, how long, or how much something is

record item totals incorrectly rather than relying on rough guesses

M

to misgauge

vsto miscount

1 8.1

Judge or estimate something wrongly

record item totals incorrectly instead of giving general judgments

M

to mismeasure

vsto miscount

6.3

To check something in the wrong way and get the wrong size or amount

record item totals incorrectly rather than measuring physical dimensions

How Accurate

to count

∞ 1.0

to miscount

3 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology