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mistranspose

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To transpose by mistake.

Examples

“Respecting the alleged error of the mistranspose of inventors' name⟳, the inventors are printed in accordance with the Declaration submitted at the time of filing the application.”
“Failure modes of the analyst are: the analyst omits (forgets) a specific user requirement, the analyst misunderstands (cognitive error) a specific user requirement, the analyst mistransposes (typographical error) a user requirement, the analyst fails to notice⟳ a conflict between two users' requirements (cognitive error).”
“Alternatively, cognitive strengths might be disadvantaged by a literacy difficulty and an extremely numerate learner with dyslexia might mistranspose questions and answers, losing marks for a subject in which they should have⟳ excelled.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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