as in to misclassify
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Recent Examples of mistype
Dutch mathematician Jacobus Verhoeff reported in 1969 that two errors—mistyping a single digit and swapping two neighboring digits of one’s card number—account for nearly 90 percent of all human input errors in practice.
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Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2025
Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.
—Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2025
Attackers register domains nearly identical to popular sites, relying on users to mistype URLs.
—Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2025
Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.
—Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2025
Attackers register domains nearly identical to popular sites, relying on users to mistype URLs.
—Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistype
misclassify
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Official statistics undercount or misclassify incidents, especially with unreported crimes, and policies that treat repeat offenses leniently.—
Jeff Horseman,
Oc Register,
5 May 2026
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Compensation models will misalign incentives, and risk frameworks will misclassify stability.—
Henrik Totterman,
Forbes.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Mistype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistype. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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