miskeyv.
/ˌmɪsˈkiː/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈki/ transitive. To key incorrectly. Also intransitive: to make a keyboarding error.
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1971 Computers & Humanities 6 42 No instructions can be miswritten, misread or miskeyed.
1974 W. Garner Big enough Wreath vi. 80 His slim fingers strayed across keys without pressing... ‘You must have mis-keyed.’
1986 Infosystems Nov. 38/2 At times all of us have miskeyed a password, occasionally even twice.
1997 Daily Tel. 20 Oct. 25/7 The Exchange changed the rules for Sets last week to protect brokers who accidentally mis-key instructions into the system.
Derivatives
misˈkeyed adj.
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1985 PC Week 23 July 36/4 The number of miskeyed items has..been greatly reduced and the number of wrong prices keyed in has gone down to zero.
1990 N.Y. Woman June 80/3 Mis-keyed numbers and other honest mistakes.
misˈkeying n.
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1984 Financial Times 26 Oct. 16/6 The small movement of the keys, which are rather cluttered together, could result in a fair amount of irritation and miskeying.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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