misdiscover means to discover in a wrong or unacceptable way. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Etymology
From mis- + discover.
verb
- To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.“And when we are not leaving the original in-dwellers out of our stories of "peopling" the continent and developing "the" American population, we have been misdiscovering, misnaming, and misunderstanding them.”