Boggle Word Finder
MISNOMER
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
11
pts
MISNOMER is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.
Word family
noun
- A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
- broadlyAn incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname.
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broadlyA term which is misleading, even if firmly established, technically correct, or both.
- The name Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.
- The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.
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broadlynonstandardproscribedSomething which is asserted not to be true; a mistaken belief, a falsehood, a myth.
- It’s a misnomer that all doctors have bad handwriting.
verb
- transitiveTo use an incorrect, and especially misleading, name for (someone or something); to misidentify, to misname.