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MISNOMERS

9 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

MISNOMERS is a valid 9-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 18 in Super Big Boggle.

MISNOMERS root MISNOMER-s

Word family

MISNOMER 11 MISNOMERING-ing 11 MISNOMERED-ed 11
noun
  1. A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
  2. broadlyAn incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  1. transitiveTo use an incorrect, and especially misleading, name for (someone or something); to misidentify, to misname.