mistype

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Recent Examples of mistype Dutch mathematician Jacobus Verhoeff reported in 1969 that two errors—mistyping a single digit and swapping two neighboring digits of one’s card number—account for nearly 90 percent of all human input errors in practice. Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2025 Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected. Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2025 Attackers register domains nearly identical to popular sites, relying on users to mistype URLs. Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistype
misclassify
Verb
  • These findings are consistent with a growing body of research showing how AI systems often misclassify, perpetuate discrimination toward or otherwise harm trans and disabled people.
    Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Likewise, subtle input modifications during inference—also known as adversarial attacks—can completely misclassify results.
    Neel Sendas, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025

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“Mistype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistype. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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