misgroup

misgroup

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ group

Verb

misgroup (third-person singular simple present misgroups, present participle misgrouping, simple past and past participle misgrouped)

1. (transitive) To group wrongly.
   • 1991, Melvyn C. Goldstein, ‎Gelek Rimpoche, ‎Lobsang Phuntshog, Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan

     Consequently, the burden of grouping the syllables into words falls entirely on the reader, and it is very common for beginners to misgroup the syllables and create horrendous translations […]

   • 2008, Samuel Harris Payne, Advances in Computational Mass Spectrometry

     Any fixed width cluster has the potential to misgroup peptides from multiple genes into a single group.

Anagrams

• groupism