From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe the wrong way round/aroundbe the wrong way round/arounda) ORDER/SEQUENCEto be in the wrong order These two paragraphs are the wrong way round. b) WRONG/INCORRECTif something is the wrong way round, the back is where the front should be You’ve got your T-shirt on the wrong way around. → wrong
Examples from the Corpus
be the wrong way round/around• Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round. 