mispronunciation

mispronounce | American Dictionary

mispronounce
verb[ T ]
us/ˌmɪs·prəˈnɑʊns/
to pronounce a word or sound the wrong way:
I always mispronounce his name.

Examples of mispronounce

mispronounce
The children were significantly worse at identifying words that had their metrical stress pattern reversed than words that were mispronounced in other ways.
These mispronounced words were discarded from the sample.
This is important because the underlying representation of both mispronounced and correctly pronounced words is unclear.
Nonnative speakers constantly mispronounce words by taking the spelling as their guide.
The skilled readers seemed to have more knowledge of how the word should be spelled, even if they (rarely) mispronounced a word.
The danger of readers unfamiliar with such words mispronouncing the ending would be increased if words now spelt with oes were no longer distinguishedfromsingular os.
Typically, a word was mispronounced in the first of the four repetitions and then correctly pronounced in subsequent ones.
If consonants were mispronounced as singletons, then this same pronunciation in clusters was not penalized.
In addition, even though learners do not always mispronounce sounds that are difficult, a system that can identify frequent errors could be very useful for learners and teachers.
Even though the students often mispronounced what they had heard, the guru let them continue so that the rhythm of their recitation was not repeatedly interrupted.
But young children often violate it : they mispronounce words, use the wrong inflected forms or choose the wrong grammatical morphemes, pick the wrong words, produce wrong word-orders and omit words.
He was quick to pounce on anyone who dared to mispronounce the name of his beloved constituency, which is of course pronounced "langbath".
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