Says many but contains one

The name of an attribute suggests multiple instances, but its type suggests a single one.

Example: attribute stats of type Boolean. Documenting such inconsistencies avoids additional comprehension effort to understand the purpose of the attribute.

Related smells: Says one but contains many

Reference

Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol. “Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them". in Empirical Software Engineering (ESEM), 21(1), Feb 2016. 104-158. 10.1007/s10664-014-9350-8