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

Most children who misarticulate are normal neurologically and structurally.

—Linda Pratt

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