misnaming
Calling something incorrectly
Misnaming is calling someone or something by the wrong name.
The word covers innocent slips—The teacher kept misnaming the new student—and deliberate acts of disrespect, as when someone pointedly uses the wrong name or pronoun.
Misnaming can also refer to labeling things incorrectly: The misnaming of the species caused decades of confusion.
Wrongly recognizing something
- mislabelMark with incorrect information
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
- miscallLabel incorrectly
- mistitleName something incorrectly
misclassification · mistagging · misbrand · misapplication · typo · misprint · inaccuracy · incorrectness
Incorrectly applied designation
- mischaracterizationDescribing something inaccurately
- mislabelingIncorrect identification marking
- pseudonymFictitious professional name
- malapropOne who misuses words
Name incorrectly
- misclassifyCategorize something incorrectly
- miscallLabel incorrectly
- mistitleName something incorrectly
- misattributeAssign to wrong source
misbrand · misrepresent · confuse · mistag · misdiagnose · miscode · miscategorize · rename
misidentification
Wrongly recognizing something
- mislabelMark with incorrect information
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
- miscallLabel incorrectly
mistitle · misclassification · mistagging · misbrand · misapplication · typo · misprint · inaccuracy · incorrectness · misstatement
misnomer
Incorrectly applied designation
- mischaracterizationDescribing something inaccurately
- mislabelingIncorrect identification marking
- pseudonymFictitious professional name
misidentify
Name incorrectly
- misclassifyCategorize something incorrectly
- miscallLabel incorrectly
- mistitleName something incorrectly
misattribute · misbrand · misrepresent · confuse · mistag · misdiagnose · miscode · miscategorize · rename · relabel
- label errorstypo, misnomer, mistagging, misprint, false label
- assigningassigning, allocating, appointing, attributing, crediting
- Freudian slipsFreudian slip, slip of the tongue, speech error