miscatalog

verb

mis·​cat·​a·​log ˌmis-ˈka-tə-ˌlȯg 

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variants or miscatalogue

miscataloged or miscatalogued; miscataloging or miscataloguing

transitive verb

: to catalog (something) incorrectly

a novel that was miscataloged as nonfiction

… several specimens had been collected and preserved in science museums around the country, but most had been miscataloged as olingos, their larger, more common kin.

—Martha Quillin

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above