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I had taken off my shoes(we're supposed to take them off before we enter the music room). When I came back and put them back on, I realized they weren't mine. (There had been a lot of shoes there, now only this one pair was left, so I assumed that they were mine; our shoes are black)

Looks like my shoes got swapped with someone.

My shoes got swapped with someone.

I know that "swap" sounds natural when the trade is intentional, but does it sound fine if it happens by accident?

This happened at my school. We have similar shoes, it's part of our uniform.

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    Your shoes did not get swapped with someone. Your shoes got swapped with someone else's, or you swapped your shoes with someone, or someone swapped shoes with you.
    – Davo
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 12:24
  • @Davo "You swapped your shoes with someone else's" implies that it was intentional. "It looks like my shoes got swapped with someone else's" or "Someone else has accidentally taken my shoes" would be better. Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 18:03
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    Hopefully, you realized you were wearing a person on your feet before putting your weight on her or him! Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 18:28

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Swapped accidentally with someone else's.
OP has given two sentences and wants to know if they imply that swapping was done unintentionally.

1.Looks like my shoes got swapped with someone.
2.My shoes got swapped with someone.

Looks like (meaning it appears) in Sentence 1 indicates that the shoes were mistakenly exchanged or interchanged, but the phrase someone should be changed to someone else's.

"The phrase "accidentally swapped" is correct"

Ref. ludwig.guru.
1.The Times.
Potter's research suggested that as many as 19,000 babies are accidentally swapped at birth around the world each year.
2.The New York Times.
During the making of "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" (1990), for example, Paul Newman accidentally swapped the word "which" for "that".
3.The Guardian.
Mixed Blessings (about two babies accidentally swapped at birth), Coming Home (about servicemen and evacuees returning at the end of the war) and Chocolate!
4.BBC.
In two of these he believes that perhaps the blue and pink were accidentally swapped around.

You can convey that the pair of shoes were unintentionally exchanged or switched in this manner:
1.Looks like my shoes got swapped with someone else's.
2. It appears my shoes were accidentally swapped with someone else's.
3. My shoes were accidentally swapped with someone else's.

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