misarticulate

verb

mis·​ar·​tic·​u·​late ˌmis-är-ˈti-kyə-ˌlāt 

misarticulated; misarticulating

1

transitive : to utter indistinctly or incorrectly

… fricatives are frequently misarticulated as plosives by young children, and vice versa.

—Andrew Radford

2

intransitive : to utter speech sounds indistinctly or incorrectly

… speech therapists complain that they can change the misarticulation of certain language sounds while the child is in their clinic, but that he or she continues to misarticulate everywhere else.

—Sidney Bijou

misarticulation

ˌmis-(ˌ)är-ˌti-kyə-ˈlā-shən 

noun

plural misarticulations

It is not so much an abnormal anatomical structure which is the cause of misarticulation …

—David Crystal and Rosemary Varley

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for misarticulate

• inarticulate
• apiculate
• denticulate
• geniculate
• particulate
• reticulate