mistake
mistake is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
- transitive verb. To take or choose wrongly.
- transitive verb. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
- transitive verb. To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.
- transitive verb. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
- intransitive verb. To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
- noun. An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
- noun. Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
- noun. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
"he made a bad mistake"
"she was quick to point out my errors"
- noun. an understanding of something that is not correct
"he wasn't going to admit his mistake"
"make no mistake about his intentions"
- noun. part of a statement that is not correct
"the book was full of errors"
- verb. to make a mistake or be incorrect
- verb. identify incorrectly
"Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
Synonyms
error, fault, misapprehension, err, slip, misidentify
Common word forms
mistaker, mistakes, mistaking, mistakeful
Words from these letters
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