also: みまごう
godan verb (-u), transitive verb
Used when one visually mistakes one thing for another, or misreads a character or situation. The reading みまごう does not conjugate and is less common.
暗くて、彼を見紛うところだった。
It was dark, and I almost mistook him for someone else.
この字は「未」と見紛
You might misread this character as 未.