garden path sentence

Etymology
From the idiom, because readers form an interpretation of the sentence which remains plausible until near the end of the sentence, at which point the readers realize that their interpretation cannot be right (they have been led up a garden path) and they must try another interpretation.

Noun

 * 1)  A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to the ambiguity of a word or words.

Translations

 * Hungarian: becsali mondat