The phrase "got the wrong number" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase in a sentence like "I tried to call the store, but I think I got the wrong number."
What I was trying to do was call home, and got the wrong number".
"For the rest of the conversation I had to resist the urge to roar with laughter and inquire whether the caller had got the wrong number," Robinson reports.
"For the rest of the conversation I had to resist the urge to roar with laughter an inquire whether the caller had got the wrong number," he wrote, and told the senior Labour figure that he was thankful for being considered but that he remained committed to journalism.
I still think Kylie's people were trying to call Jamelia, and they just got the wrong number.
If your message is intended to do anything other than that, then you've got the wrong number.'".
"I got an operator and each time I was getting the wrong number and they kept giving me a different wrong number.
A disappointing entry, only 172 in all, but with few mistakes in the grid, though as always with 'Wrong Number' a few got the wrong pair of words to clue or got them the wrong way round.
