1. the act of dialing a telephone number incorrectly

1. present participle of misdial; dialing a telephone number incorrectly

Examples

• The misdialing resulted in reaching a stranger instead of her doctor.
• Frequent misdialing can be frustrating when trying to reach someone urgently.
• He kept misdialing the number because he had written it down incorrectly.
• She was misdialing the area code and couldn’t understand why the call wouldn’t go through.
• The old rotary phone made misdialing more common than with modern push-button phones.
• After misdialing three times, she decided to look up the number again.