erroneously
adverb/ɪˈroʊniəsli/
Frequency rank: #11,995 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
in a way that is mistaken or incorrect
Example sentence
The report erroneously stated that the company had gone bankrupt.
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