wrong number

noun

: an incorrect telephone number

I think you have dialed the wrong number.

Examples of wrong number in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Somebody entered the wrong number. — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 15 June 2026

The man later claimed Gerodemos dialed a wrong number. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026

Sometimes the import agent or the customs official jots down the wrong product code, the wrong tariff rate, or the wrong number of units. — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026

Finding Emily centers on a smitten musician who receives the wrong number for his perfect woman and teams up with an ambitious psychology student to locate her. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026

The broad strokes have been well-known — the ticking of a woman’s biological clock increases risk of miscarriage and infertility, often caused by eggs with the wrong number of chromosomes, the structures that carry DNA. — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2026

No more accidentally calling the wrong number. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026

But on Christmas Eve 1955, confused airmen usually tasked with tracking aircraft from foreign airspace ended up impersonating Santa Claus thanks to that child who dialed a wrong number. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 22 Dec. 2025

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton met at the intersection of a wrong number and a bold invitation. — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for wrong number

• encumber
• outnumber
• renumber
• cumber
• lumber
• slumber
• umber