misascription

Etymology

From mis- + ascription.

noun

The act or process of misascribing.“Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich.”
The result thereof: an incorrect ascription; for example, the ascription of a quality to someone or something which does not possess it, or the ascription of a quotation to someone who did not originate it.“The idea that Tycho wrote it was a misascription.”