verbverb misclassifies, verb misclassifying, verb misclassified.

What does the word Misclassify mean?

transitive verb. : to assign (someone or something) to an incorrect group or category : to classify wrongly a species misclassified in the wrong genus.

How do you spell misclassification?

mis·clas·si·fy

To classify incorrectly. mis·clas′si·fi·ca′tion (-fĭ-kā′shən) n.