Definition of Mispronunciation

1. Noun. Incorrect pronunciation.

Generic synonyms: Pronunciation
Derivative terms: Mispronounce

Definition of Mispronunciation

1. n. Wrong or improper pronunciation.

Definition of Mispronunciation

1. Noun. The act of mispronouncing. ¹

2. Noun. A mispronounced word or phrase. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mispronunciation

misproduce
misproduced
misproduces
misproducing
misprogram
misprogramed
misprograming
misprogrammed
misprogramming
misprograms
mispronounce
mispronounced
mispronounces
mispronounciation
mispronouncing
mispronunciation (current term)
mispronunciations
misproportion
misproportioned
misproportioning
misproportions
misproud
mispunctuate
mispunctuated
mispunctuates
mispunctuating
misqueme
misquotation
misquotations
misquote

Literary usage of Mispronunciation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"FHK SOME DIFFERENCES IN mispronunciation. IT is rather a blow to one's patriotism, when one seeks a position as English teacher in Germany and France, ..."

2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"It has the advantage of being a dead language, and so long dead that there would be few mourners to grieve over the horrible mispronunciation and other ..."

3. Practice Work in English by Marietta Knight (1914)
"SECTION II USE OF WORDS mispronunciation Exercise 44. — The following words are frequently mispronounced. Find their correct pronunciation. ..."

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