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

Examples

• The librarian miscatalogues the rare book under the wrong subject heading.
• If the museum miscatalogues the artifact, researchers may never find it in the database.
• The system miscatalogues items when metadata is incomplete or ambiguous.
• She discovered that the archive miscatalogues several important documents from the 1920s.
• When you miscatalogue inventory, it creates confusion in the warehouse.