What is another word for mistake?
908 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ mɪstˈe͡ɪk], [ mɪstˈeɪk], [ m_ɪ_s_t_ˈeɪ_k]Table of Contents
Similar words for mistake:- blooper (noun)
- communication (noun)
- confound (noun)
- confusion (noun)
- defect (noun)
- delusion (noun)
- disappointment (noun)
- embarrassment (noun)
- err (noun)
- error (noun)
- error, misunderstanding (noun)
- event (noun)
- failure (noun)
- fallacy (noun)
- false impression (noun)
- faux pas (noun)
- foolishness (noun)
- imbecility (noun)
- inaccuracy (noun)
- incorrectness (noun)
- miscarriage (noun)
- misconception (noun)
- miscount (noun)
- mishap (noun)
- misidentify (noun)
- misinterpretation (noun)
- miss (noun)
- misunderstanding (noun)
- oversight (noun)
- paradox (noun)
- slip (noun)
- slip of the tongue (noun)
- solecism (noun)
- trip (noun)
- wrong (noun)
- wrongness (noun)
- confuse (verb)
- jumble (verb)
- misapprehend (verb)
- misconceive (verb)
- misconstrue (verb)
- misinterpret (verb)
- misjudge (verb)
- misread (verb)
- misunderstand (verb)
- mix up (verb)
- mix up, misunderstand (verb)
- slip (verb)
- other synonyms
- confuse
- fault
- malapropism
- misjudge
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Mistake:
n.
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- have no conception of something,
- not have a clue,
- get someone wrong,
- lose your grip (on something),
- be unclear about/as to something.
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- lapse.
- dis-composures,
- dis-tractions,
- dis-organization,
- dis traction,
- dis locations,
- emotional upsets,
- dis composures,
- dis composure,
- up-roars,
- dis-location,
- dis-organizations,
- un tidinesses,
- sur-prise,
- un-tidiness,
- dis organizations,
- sur prise,
- dis tractions,
- up roar,
- un tidiness,
- sur-prises,
- un-tidinesses,
- dis organization,
- sur prises,
- dis-traction,
- dis location,
- up-roar,
- dis-locations,
- hodge podge,
- dis-composure,
- up roars.
- in juries,
- dis-colorations,
- un-soundnesses,
- un soundnesses,
- dis colorations,
- un-soundness,
- in-jury,
- in jury,
- dis-coloration,
- dis coloration,
- marrings,
- un soundness,
- rough spots.
- fool paradise,
- eidolons,
- deceptivenesses,
- self deceptions,
- fools paradise,
- eidola,
- selfdeception,
- self-deceptions,
- self deception,
- selfdeceptions.
- in discretions,
- un eases,
- self-consciousnesses,
- un-eases,
- dis-tress,
- selfconsciousness,
- un ease,
- in-discretion,
- selfconsciousnesses,
- un-ease,
- egg face,
- dis-tresses,
- awkward situations,
- dis tress,
- un-easinesses,
- un-easiness,
- self consciousnesses,
- dis tresses,
- disconcertions,
- in discretion,
- self consciousness,
- un easiness,
- in-discretions.
- err.
- falsehood,
- fault,
- distortion,
- blunder,
- misestimation,
- Misjudgment,
- aberration,
- misprint,
- miscalculation.
- misstatement,
- misapplication,
- slipup,
- false step,
- fluff,
- underestimation,
- omission,
- neglect,
- inadvertence,
- flub,
- overestimation,
- typographical error,
- slight.
- co-incidence,
- co-incidences,
- trans action,
- trans actions,
- trans-actions,
- trans-action,
- co incidences,
- co incidence.
- misconstruals,
- in-exactness,
- un-truths,
- un truth,
- in consistencies,
- pre conceptions,
- pre conception,
- faultinesses,
- quibblings,
- in exactness,
- in-consistencies,
- un truths,
- in-validity,
- non sequiturs,
- pre-conceptions,
- in consistency,
- un-truth,
- in validity,
- in exactnesses,
- in-consistency,
- pre-conception,
- in-validities,
- in-exactnesses,
- inexactnesses,
- in validities.
- foulup,
- foul-up,
- gaucherie,
- mess-ups,
- gaucheries,
- goof,
- colossal blunder,
- blunder in etiquette,
- mess-up,
- social blunder.
- silliness,
- irresponsibility,
- fool trick,
- horse feathers,
- foolery,
- dumb trick,
- Fooleries,
- unwiseness,
- imbecility,
- absurdness,
- witlessness,
- carrying-on,
- carryings-on.
- un faithfulness,
- in-accuracy,
- un-reliability,
- unreliabilities,
- in accuracy,
- un-reliabilities,
- un reliabilities,
- un faithfulnesses,
- in-accuracies,
- in accuracies,
- un reliability,
- un-faithfulnesses,
- un-faithfulness.
- mis-adventures,
- non-successes,
- un-doings,
- un doings,
- mis-carriage,
- mis adventure,
- mis-adventure,
- mis-carriages,
- un doing,
- mis-fires,
- mis fire,
- nonsuccesses,
- mis carriage,
- mis-fire,
- non success,
- non successes,
- mis carriages,
- un-doing,
- mis fires,
- mis adventures.
- mis constructions,
- mis-conception,
- mis construction,
- mis conceptions,
- mis-construction,
- mistaken beliefs,
- mis conception,
- mis-constructions,
- mis-conceptions.
- rear enders,
- wrack ups,
- rearenders,
- wrackups,
- rear-enders,
- crack ups,
- illfortune,
- rearender,
- wrackup,
- stack-ups,
- ill fortunes,
- wrack-ups,
- fenderbender,
- stack ups,
- stackup,
- stackups,
- fenderbenders,
- illfortunes,
- ill-fortunes,
- fender-benders.
- mis understanding,
- mis understandings,
- mis reckonings,
- mis reckoning,
- mis-reckonings,
- mis-understandings,
- confoundings,
- mis-understanding,
- mis-reckoning.
- in-attention,
- over-looking,
- preteritions,
- over-sights,
- in-attentions,
- pretermissions,
- in attentions,
- over look,
- over-sight,
- over sight,
- dis-regards,
- over-looks,
- dis regards,
- over looks,
- over sights,
- over-look,
- dis-regard,
- overlookings,
- in attention,
- dis regard.
- catch22,
- non-senses,
- catch 22's,
- re verse,
- non senses,
- catch 22,
- catch22's,
- non-sense,
- catch-22's,
- non sense,
- re-verse.
- slip of pen,
- slip pen,
- slip the pen,
- slip tongue,
- sus linguaes,
- slip-tongue,
- lapsus linguaes,
- slip the tongue.
v.
•confuse (verb) •jumble (verb) •misapprehend (verb)- mis apprehending,
- mis apprehends,
- mis-apprehend,
- mis-apprehended,
- mis-apprehends,
- mis-apprehending,
- mis apprehended,
- mis apprehend.
- mis conceiving,
- mis-conceive,
- mis-conceived,
- mis-conceives,
- mis conceived,
- mis-conceiving,
- mis conceives,
- mis conceive.
- mis-construes,
- mis construe,
- took wrong way,
- mis translating,
- mis-construe,
- take wrong way,
- mistranslating,
- mis-construed,
- taking the wrong way,
- mis construed,
- mis translates,
- took the wrong way,
- mis construes,
- takes wrong way,
- mis-translated,
- dis torts,
- mis-construing,
- dis-tort,
- mis-translates,
- mis translated,
- mis translate,
- mis-translating,
- mis construing,
- taking wrong way,
- mis-translate,
- takes the wrong way,
- dis-torts,
- dis tort.
- gotten signals mixed,
- were bewildered,
- mis-applying,
- got wrong,
- taking amiss,
- gat wrong,
- gat wrong impression,
- mis-understood,
- being cross purposes,
- not registers,
- were at cross purposes,
- gotten signals crossed,
- wast at cross purposes,
- are bewildered,
- art cross purposes,
- is cross purposes,
- are confused,
- missing point,
- are cross purposes,
- gat signals mixed,
- were confused,
- took amiss,
- mis knew,
- am perplexed,
- mis-knows,
- mis-apply,
- missed point,
- are perplexed,
- was perplexed,
- takes wrongly,
- was at cross purposes,
- am bewildered,
- misses point,
- wast bewildered,
- mis understand,
- were perplexed,
- mis knowing,
- gets wrong,
- misknown,
- gets signals crossed,
- taking wrongly,
- mis-applied,
- am confused,
- mis applying,
- takes amiss,
- got wrong impression,
- art confused,
- gotten wrong,
- misknowing,
- am cross purposes,
- mis-known,
- misknew,
- was cross purposes,
- gets signals mixed,
- got signals mixed,
- mis know,
- is perplexed,
- wert cross purposes,
- mis understood,
- missed the point,
- getting wrong,
- mis-knew,
- wert confused,
- being at cross purposes,
- mis-know,
- took wrongly,
- misknows,
- wert perplexed,
- not registering,
- are at cross purposes,
- mis apply,
- were cross purposes,
- being perplexed,
- mis knows,
- mis applied,
- mis-applies,
- art perplexed,
- is at cross purposes,
- is confused,
- art at cross purposes,
- mis-knowing,
- mis applies,
- was confused,
- misses the point,
- gets wrong impression,
- wast cross purposes,
- art bewildered,
- gotten wrong impression,
- got signals crossed,
- gat signals crossed,
- getting signals mixed,
- wert at cross purposes,
- missing the point,
- mis-understands,
- being bewildered,
- mis known,
- getting wrong impression,
- getting signals crossed,
- am at cross purposes,
- mis understands,
- was bewildered,
- wast confused,
- be cross purposes,
- wast perplexed,
- wert bewildered,
- being confused,
- mis-understand,
- miss point,
- is bewildered.
- be wildered,
- be-fuddle,
- dis tracts,
- be fuddle,
- dis-tracts,
- be-fuddled,
- be-fuddling,
- up-set,
- be-fuddles,
- up-setting,
- be fuddles,
- up-sets,
- be-wilders,
- dis tract,
- dis-tract,
- be-wilder,
- snafuing,
- up setting,
- be wilder,
- be fuddling,
- be-wildering,
- be wilders,
- up sets,
- be wildering,
- be-wildered,
- be fuddled.
Other synonyms:
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- misdate,
- bark up the wrong tree,
- misname,
- mistrial,
- pratfall,
- snafu,
- indiscretion,
- miscall,
- mispronunciation,
- bungle,
- foul up,
- take for,
- cock up,
- mistaken identity,
- Freudian Slip,
- goof up,
- miscue.
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- illusion,
- solecism,
- mix up,
- discrepancy.
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- flounder.
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- stumble.
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- trap.
- encumber,
- encumbered,
- snarl up,
- disarrayed,
- muss up,
- Disarraying,
- bedlamize,
- mussed up,
- discreate,
- embroiled,
- snarled up,
- Littering.
- Misthink,
- overestimates,
- be unfair,
- dogmatize,
- come to hasty conclusion,
- overestimating,
- drop the ball,
- over-rate,
- over-estimate,
- under-estimates,
- Miscomprehend,
- put foot in,
- be overcritical,
- be partial,
- be wrong,
- be misled,
- dropped the ball,
- miss by a mile,
- Misdeem,
- Misconjecture,
- barking up wrong tree,
- overestimated,
- dropping the ball,
- Overrated,
- bark up wrong tree,
- Dogmatizing.
- Misrender,
- harmonic,
- brick,
- mess,
- especially,
- discomfit,
- violation,
- wrench,
- Misreckon,
- doubtless,
- bug,
- mistaking,
- squeeze,
- pervert,
- catastrophe,
- deficiency,
- filch,
- flurry,
- misadventure,
- irregularity,
- botch up,
- claudication,
- literal,
- damage,
- lurch,
- eisegesis,
- torture,
- falsely,
- misapply,
- paralogism,
- trespass,
- anachronism,
- fall away,
- journey,
- dereliction,
- catachresis,
- credulity,
- Misexpound,
- malapropism,
- bad move,
- sneak,
- wrongdoing,
- splay,
- unfaithful,
- misreckoning,
- change,
- weak spot,
- obstinately,
- hash,
- persistently,
- too,
- Miscite,
- depreciate,
- extreme,
- misuse,
- befuddle,
- breach,
- make a mistake,
- misperceive,
- obstinate,
- bonehead play,
- happen what may,
- stain,
- divergent,
- fracture,
- boner,
- mock,
- crack,
- stubborn,
- contrary,
- extravagant,
- incorrectly,
- Mismeasure,
- specifically,
- clerical error,
- bull,
- Misreport,
- sure,
- blot,
- cross-purposes,
- come what may,
- loophole,
- improperly,
- blemish,
- calamity,
- transgression,
- misfortune,
- blur,
- slue,
- truly,
- Duped,
- bewilder,
- misremember,
- hallucination,
- failing,
- accident,
- infraction,
- be in error,
- barbarism,
- clanger,
- geological fault,
- certainly,
- scrape,
- trip up,
- cockup,
- distinct,
- skid,
- demerit,
- in truth,
- take offence,
- carelessness,
- too much,
- muddle up,
- incorrect,
- misidentification,
- flagrante delicto,
- erroneousness,
- flunk,
- Titubation,
- haplography,
- dense,
- boggle,
- chiefly,
- for certain,
- deviation,
- mulishly,
- misjudgement,
- drift,
- near miss,
- heedlessness,
- failure,
- bedevil,
- footfall,
- gloss,
- bobble,
- mark,
- foolish,
- casualty,
- breakdown,
- expressly,
- excessive,
- individually,
- Cross-reading,
- imperfection,
- untrue,
- disorderly,
- different,
- preposterous,
- absurd,
- disturb,
- glitch,
- lapsus,
- bugger up,
- misgauge,
- fox,
- at any rate,
- wrongly,
- exorbitant,
- tenacious,
- fuddle,
- perplexity,
- mistakenly,
- recalcitrant,
- absurdity,
- offence,
- discombobulate,
- erroneous belief,
- astonish,
- consternate,
- particularly,
- misnomer,
- also,
- deceive,
- fancy,
- muff,
- goof-up,
- misplay,
- spread,
- contort,
- kill,
- misdeal,
- fallacious,
- untidy,
- badly,
- peculiarly,
- fumble,
- disobedient,
- perverse,
- slew,
- disconcert,
- no doubt,
- besides,
- boob,
- defiant,
- amiss,
- laxness,
- go beyond,
- impropriety,
- faute,
- Misbelief,
- tenaciously,
- shortcoming,
- taint,
- printer's error,
- hang-up,
- steal,
- erring,
- break,
- stubbornly,
- disaster,
- heave,
- harmonious,
- short of,
- mischance,
- throw,
- whatever may happen,
- at all events,
- folly,
- inconsistency,
- bad job,
- screwup,
- mislead,
- without fail,
- mix up with,
- Foozle,
- disfigurement,
- drop away,
- get worse,
- false,
- be mistaken,
- beautiful,
- mistaken,
- complicated,
- clinker,
- obdurately,
- weakness,
- shift,
- Irish Bull,
- misspell,
- hard,
- congruous,
- plunder,
- improper,
- doggedly,
- of course,
- lurk,
- shed,
- dislocate,
- Certes,
- displace,
- peccadillo,
- erroneous,
- incongruity,
- contagious,
- sophism,
- human error,
- computer error,
- confounding,
- bewilderment,
- Misacceptation,
- lose,
- let slip,
- deception,
- Botchery,
- tongue,
- hurl,
- intractable,
- forget,
- erroneously,
- ridiculous,
- hole.
Paraphrases for Mistake:
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Forward Entailment
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Verb, past tense
Took.
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Verb, past tense
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
miscalculation, blunder, foolishness, omission, gaffe, lapse.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
fault.
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Noun, singular or mass
data, inaccuracy, defect, misdirection, accident, miscommunication, Misperception, misconduct, beam, screw-up, impropriety, mess, fault, failing, erratum, Errata, deficiency, clumsiness, coincidence, misinformation, inadvertence, slip, fake, deception, trap.
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Verb, base form
confuse.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
misunderstanding, misconception, error, misapprehension, miscarriage, misstatement, flaw, mix-up, misinterpretation, aberration, equivocation, fallacy, shortcoming, confusion, stupidity, illusion.
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Interjection
error.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Mistake:
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n.
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error, misunderstanding
fact, accuracy, reality, soundness, correctness, respect, truth, remembrance, calculation, correction, certainty, perfection, success, understanding, proof.
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Other antonyms:
inerrancy, preciseness, strictness, exactitude, exactness, infallibility, precision.
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error, misunderstanding
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v.
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mix up, misunderstand
correct, accomplish, do well, be certain, uncomplicate, understand, interpret, clear up, perceive, achieve, succeed, comprehend, fix, be sure.
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mix up, misunderstand
Homophones for Mistake:
- myosotis, meningitis, moustachio, massachusetts, monocytosis, mustagh, mogadiscio, muztag, mestiza, mosquito hawk, monkey dog, myositis, monistic, mastitis, monoamine oxidase, misjudge, majestic, mystic, musk duck, mastic, mogadishu, mustache, mysidacea, masochistic, monastic, moustache, ms-dos, mystique, mustachio, muztagh, mestizo, mastoiditis.
Hypernym for Mistake:
n.
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communication
literal, misprint, typographical error, corrigendum, erratum, literal error, typo.
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communication
Hyponym for Mistake:
n.
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communication
misstatement.
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communication