Home › Words › M › misstopmisstopmisstop means to stop badly or wrongly.EtymologyFrom mis- + stop.verbTo stop badly or wrongly.e.g.“[…] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.” — 1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).