A mispronunciation is a wrong way of saying a word or a name — the sound, the stress, or a quiet letter comes out unlike the usual form. This word is a noun: the act, or one instance of it. The matching verb is mispronounce. Names are where it stings most. People often forgive a strange English word, but they notice when you get their name wrong. Learners meet it with English stress (the loud part on the wrong syllable) and with letters that stay quiet, like the k in knife. Teachers use it kindly; papers use it when a public person says a foreign name badly. It does not mean you are stupid — English spelling often does not tell you how to speak. Count it when you mean one wrong form (a common mispronunciation of …); leave it uncounted when you mean the problem in general.

發音錯誤；唸錯