misstate

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.

   The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?

Similar words

fudge misstep misallege mistell missay misdeclare misfigure misunderstate misdefine mistalk

Often followed by

the their facts a or financial what it and his

Word family

misstated misstatement misstatements misstates misstating