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For example, I saw someone just now. I thought he was Jack, but turned out he was not. Or, I saw something and recognized it as something else incorrectly. Is there a word for such situations?
I know if I read something wrongly, I could say "I misread it". and if I hear something wrongly, I could say "I misheard it". But I cannot find the word "missee" in any dictionaries. Is there something else people use?
Here are my possible answers,
I'm sorry. I thought you were someone/somebody else.
I'm sorry. I mistook you for someone/somebody else.
I'm sorry. I've mistaken you for someone/somebody else.
Despite its absence from many dictionaries, mis-see or missee is not unknown. OED 1 gives its first citation as 1591, and you may find it recurring across the centuries in Google Books right down to the present. (But you would do well to look for it in its inflected forms missees, missaw, misseen since most instances of missee represent missy as a name or title—the spelling usually indicates that a pidgin-English speaker is being quoted.)
It is by no means a common word, and most of the uses found in Google Books are drawn from literary criticism; but if you use it, in writing or in speech, I don't think you will be misunderstood.
ADD:
Here are some contemporary uses in entirely colloquial contexts:
Maybe you missaw it as Spikes? (from a Pokémon forum)
Unless I mis-saw, didn't Christine's fondant start from shop-bought marshmallows? (from a forum on UK TV shows)
Out on the highway pickin' up clues / So much is mis-seen, so much to lose (from a John Fogerty song, “Premonition”)
I only got to examine them peeking in from the side, rather than actually handling them, so I may well have been mis-seeing what I thought I was seeing. :) from a sewing forum)
You asked for a word, and one word is misidentify.
COCA shows the result of the word misidentified.
You may say this (as I said in my comment) -
I misidentified him as Jack.
Oxford explains the word misidentify
Misidentify (verb) with object: identify (something or someone) incorrectly.
I think "I mistook you for someone else" is the most natural sounding option for your situation. As others have said, "missee" is not a commonly used word.
In for other similar situations, "misheard" is acceptable. "Misread" is another word you could use, and you could also use it for things other than the printed word. If you see an ambiguous situation, and you jump to the wrong conclusion, you can say that you misread the situation.
Try "misperceive."
I misperceived you as someone else.
Seeing is a form of perception. Nobody sees the world objectively.
