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📄 To file wrongly 📄 A misplaced file
to misfile

to misfile

3 4.3
To put a document in the wrong file by mistake
  • verb
  • /ˌmɪsˈfaɪl/
translation icon : archivar incorrectamente
  • You're right, I probably just misfiled...
  • get misfiled

I probably did at some point, but you forgot because you are getting I may have misfiled it, Malcolm.

Examples

  • There is no chance of misfiling since no file is ever out.

  • A lot of these documents got either misfiled or they just didn't have enough time to go through everything.

  • Things get misfiled

    Academic text (1995)

  • A simple example: If Romney really did misfile SEC and IRS/Tax forms, don't you think an Obama-run SEC/IRS would have said something about it?

    Blog text (5)

  • The assistant realized she had misfiled the important reports in the wrong cabinet.

  • After searching for hours, he discovered that he had misfiled the application under a different name.

  • She was shocked to find out that the evidence had been misfiled during the case preparation.

Synonyms

to misplace
vsto misfile
104 3.0

To put something in the wrong place so you cannot find it again

is used specifically for documents put into wrong folders or filing systems
to mislay
vsto misfile
1 4.3

To put something somewhere and later cannot find it again

refers to documents placed in incorrect folders not general lost items
to mislocate
vsto misfile
1 6.8

To put something in the wrong place

applies mainly to documents wrongly kept in folder systems rather than locations

How Accurate

to place
∞ 1.0
to misfile
3 4.3

Surface Forms

misfile infinitive
misfiled past
misfiled past participle
misfiling present participle
misfiles third person singular

Morphology

misfile = file (transparent) = mis + file

Standard productive prefixation: 'mis-' meaning 'wrongly' attached to the verb 'file', yielding 'to file wrongly'.

Etymology

Misfile is made from mis- 'wrong' and file 'to put papers in a folder', like in the word mistake where mis- also means 'wrong'. So to misfile something is to put it in the wrong place by accident.