What is another word for mistake?
1081 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mɪstˈe͡ɪk], [ mɪstˈeɪk], [ m_ɪ_s_t_ˈeɪ_k]
Mistakes are common occurrences in our daily lives, but what are the other words that can be used to describe these missteps? One synonym for mistake is "error," which suggests a simple slip-up or inaccurate judgement. Another option is "blunder," which implies a larger, more embarrassing mistake. "Faux pas" is another word choice that specifically refers to a social or cultural mistake. Other synonyms for mistake include "lapse," "slip," "oversight," and "misstep," each with their own unique connotations. Whatever the word chosen, it's important to learn from the mistake and move forward with newfound knowledge and awareness.
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Similar words for mistake:
- other relevant words (adjective)
- 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)
- other relevant words (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
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Mistake:
adj.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)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.
- mishap,
- mix-up,
- phase,
- nonsuccess,
- incorrect sum,
- knot,
- boo-boo,
- miss,
- gaffe,
- shyness,
- incorrectness,
- rear ender,
- wrong,
- misconception,
- bloomer,
- crackup,
- flaw,
- deceptiveness,
- lapsus linguae,
- inhibition,
- Impecuniosity,
- corrigenda,
- self-consciousness,
- invalidities,
- pretermission,
- false impression,
- egg on face,
- miscount,
- elusions,
- confusion,
- misconstructions,
- self-deception,
- embarrassment,
- stack-up,
- misapprehension,
- foolishness,
- shambles,
- unreliability,
- mixup,
- ill fortune,
- infirmity,
- stack up,
- booboos,
- timidity,
- gaff,
- wrack up,
- imprecision,
- typos,
- Visions,
- mistaken belief,
- howler,
- scar,
- inexactness,
- inaccuracy,
- disconcertion,
- rear-ender,
- messes,
- Eidolon,
- slip of tongue,
- erratum,
- fallacy,
- misconstruction,
- fender-bender,
- marvel,
- failings,
- laxity,
- howlers,
- crack-up,
- slip-ups,
- labyrinth,
- boo-boos,
- crack-ups,
- wrack-up,
- paradox,
- false move,
- stupefaction,
- booboo,
- blooper,
- sus linguae,
- miscommunication,
- slip-up,
- non-success,
- Cacology,
- event,
- speck,
- Illusions,
- misconstrual,
- slip,
- misunderstanding,
- senselessness,
- spuriousness,
- errors,
- faultiness,
- awkward situation,
- ill-fortune,
- non sequitur,
- slip of the tongue,
- disappointment,
- imprecisions,
- figment,
- spoonerism,
- fender bender,
- typo,
- corrigendum,
- delusion,
- screw-up,
- nonsense,
- speciousness,
- defect,
- elusion,
- trip,
- gaffs,
- slip of the pen,
- misinterpretation,
- conjuncture,
- oversight,
- preterition,
- rough spot,
- invalidity,
- spoonerisms,
- emotional upset,
- crackups,
- conjunctures.
- 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.
- slip up,
- misconstrue,
- not registered,
- make mistake,
- get wrong,
- misjudge,
- Dizzied,
- get signals mixed,
- get signals crossed,
- goes wrong,
- put foot in mouth,
- mistranslated,
- Misknow,
- up set,
- snafued,
- slips up,
- misread,
- fluffed,
- mistranslates,
- misapprehend,
- be confused,
- Slipped,
- misunderstand,
- take wrongly,
- get wrong impression,
- go wrong,
- going wrong,
- Misconstrued,
- be bewildered,
- take amiss,
- slipping up,
- be perplexed,
- mistranslate,
- confuse,
- misconceive,
- jumble,
- slipped up,
- dizzies,
- take the wrong way,
- miss the point,
- Misapplied,
- fluffing,
- be at cross purposes,
- slipping,
- putting foot in mouth,
- not register.
- 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.
How to use "Mistake" in context?
Since the dawn of time, humans have been making mistakes. Whether it's making a simple mistake like forgetting to zip your lip after eating a salad, or making a bigger mistake like deciding to quit your job and start a company without first doing your research, humans have a propensity for making mistakes. But what's the one mistake that's defined our species more than any other?
It's the mistake of thinking we can control what happens to us.
In our quest to become autonomous individuals, we try to control everything in our lives.
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
blunder, foolishness, gaffe, lapse, miscalculation, omission.
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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
accident, beam, clumsiness, coincidence, data, deception, defect, deficiency, erratum, failing, fake, fault, impropriety, inaccuracy, inadvertence, mess, misconduct, misdirection, misinformation, slip, trap, Errata, Misperception, miscommunication, screw-up.
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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
aberration, confusion, equivocation, error, fallacy, flaw, illusion, misapprehension, miscarriage, misconception, misinterpretation, misstatement, misunderstanding, shortcoming, stupidity, mix-up.
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Interjection
error.
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Noun, singular or mass
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.
Hyponym for Mistake:
n.
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communication
misstatement.
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communication
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called-for
- Synonyms:
- wanted, hurry up, urgent, hurry-up, life and death, top-priority, touch and go, ahead, all-important, arduous.
