mispronouncing
noun, verb
mispronouncing is a noun meaning “mispronunciation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-S-P-R-O-N-O-U-N-C-I-N-G and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mispronouncing is mispronouncings.
What does mispronouncing mean?
noun
- 1
mispronunciation
frequent mispronouncings of difficult words
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of mispronounce
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mispronouncing?
Mispronouncing has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mispronouncing
- mispronouncings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mispronouncing?
Mispronouncing appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).