1. to assign to the wrong class or category
Usage: transitive verb; formal or technical usage

Examples

• The librarian accidentally misclassed the book under fiction instead of biography.
• Students often misclass organisms when they first learn taxonomy.
• The system misclassed the email as spam when it should have been marked as important.
• If you misclass the data, your analysis will be unreliable.
• The museum curator was careful not to misclass the artifact's historical period.