mistake
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Verb 1 meaning
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
“Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.”
Noun 2 meanings
An error.
“There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.”
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
Etymology
From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga). The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.
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MISTAKE at a glance
MISTAKE has 7 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (M 3 + I 1 + S 1 + T 1 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,112 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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