Meaning & use
misname
To give someone or something an incorrect or unsuitable name.
See it in a sentence
The museum misnamed the painting for decades before archivists corrected the label.
Reporters misnamed the small town in their first broadcast and had to issue a correction.
A note on using this word
Misname is less common than mislabel and is typically used for proper names rather than categories.
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