1. to catalog or classify (something) incorrectly or inaccurately
Usage: third-person singular present tense or plural form of miscatalog

Examples

• The librarian miscatalogs the new books when she enters the wrong subject codes.
• If the system miscatalogs items, researchers will have difficulty finding them.
• The museum miscatalogs artifacts when staff fail to verify their origins.
• He miscatalogs the inventory by assigning items to the wrong departments.
• The database miscatalogs entries if the metadata is incomplete or incorrect.