misparsing
/ˌmɪsˈpɑrsɪŋ/
noun
- The act or result of analyzing a sentence or data incorrectly, especially in grammar or computing.
- Linguists studied the misparsing of ambiguous phrases by language learners.
- The compiler's misparsing of the code caused an error.
- A misparsing of the sentence led to a misunderstanding of the instructions.
Synonyms
verb
- Present participle of misparse: analyzing a sentence or data incorrectly.
- The student was misparsing the complex sentence structure.
- She was misparsing the grammar because she didn't know the rules.
- The software kept misparsing the user's input, giving wrong results.