misstate

From mis- +‎ state.

misstate (third-person singular simple present misstates, present participle misstating, simple past and past participle misstated)

1. To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.

   The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?

• etatisms, mistaste