misnumbering
/mɪsˈnʌmbərɪŋ/
noun
- The act or process of assigning numbers incorrectly.
- The misnumbering of the hotel rooms led to guests entering the wrong suites.
- A simple misnumbering in the spreadsheet caused the budget to look off by thousands.
- The editor caught a misnumbering in the chapter headings before the book went to print.
verb
- Present participle of misnumber: assigning the wrong number to something.
- Misnumbering the exam booklets would be a serious mistake.
- The intern kept misnumbering the invoices, so we had to redo them.
- He was misnumbering the pages because the printer was out of order.