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Definition: Misnomer |
MisnomerNoun1. An incorrect or unsuitable name. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "misnomer" was first used: 1455. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Misnomer | Noun: misnomer; lucus a non lucendo; Mrs. Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em; (neologism); Hoosier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Misnomer |
| Specialty definitions using "misnomer": amorphous graphite ♦ data channel ♦ emerandine ♦ Fusiliers ♦ gold sapphire ♦ heat-transfer coefficient ♦ lime feldspar ♦ Network Filing System ♦ OBSTROPULOUS ♦ RUSTY GUTS ♦ standing shot ♦ X-Windows. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | An unfortunate misnomer for I am the mildest of men. (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors; writing credit: Milton Subotsky) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The name Rocky Mountain spotted fever is somewhat of a misnomer. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | The Government considers the term "indigenous people" to be a misnomer, because it considers all citizens except ethnic Chinese to be indigenous. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Misnomer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "Misnomer" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.92% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
misnomer | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "misnomer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | term i gabuar, emër i gabuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | الخطأ في التسمية, إسم مغلوط (misname). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | погрешно название, погрешна употреба на термин, погрешна употреба на израз. (various references) | |
Czech | chybné pojmenování, špatné oznaèení. (various references) | |
Farsi | نام غلط, نام عوضی , اسم بی مسمی . (various references) | |
French | nom mal appropié, nom inapproprié. (various references) | |
German | Namensirrtum, fehlbezeichnung. (various references) | |
Greek | κακή νομασία, εσφαλμένοσ χαρακτηρισμόσ, εσφαλμένο όνομα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שם מטע". (various references) | |
Hungarian | helytelen elnevezés, nem alkalmas jelző. (various references) | |
Italian | nome sbagliato, definizione non appropriata. (various references) | |
Manx | ennym meechiart. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isnomermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | termo impróprio. (various references) | |
Romanian | termen impropriu, interpretare greşitã (misconstruction, misunderstanding). (various references) | |
Russian | неправильное название, неправильное имя. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pogrešno ime, pogrešan naziv. (various references) | |
Spanish | nombre equivocado. (various references) | |
Swedish | felaktig beteckning. (various references) | |
Turkish | yanlış isim kullanma, yanlış ad, isim hatası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неправильне ім'я, неправильна назва. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhầm tên sự dùng từ sai, sự dùng thuật ngữ sai. (various references) | |
Welsh | camenw. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nominare. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | mesnomer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "misnomer": misnomered, misnomers. (additional references) | |
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"Misnomer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Masnmr, Meisonnier, Meshorer, Midsomer, Milsome, misnormer, Misonne, Rignomer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misnomer" (pronounced mi'snō"mer) |
| 3 | -ō" m er | Comber, Homer, Omer, sarcoma. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-m-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: memoirs, merinos. | |
-2 letters: eonism, irones, isomer, memoir, merino, mimeos, mimers, miners, minors, moires, momser, monies, monism, nomism, nosier, rimose, senior, sermon, simmer. | |
-3 letters: emirs, enorm, eosin, irone, irons, memos, meson, miens, mimeo, mimer, mimes, miner, mines, minor, mires, miser, moire, momes, monie, mores, morns, morse, noirs, noise, nomes, noris, norms, omens, omers, ornis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-m-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: immersion, misnomers, modernism, persimmon. | |
+2 letters: immersions, memorising, merbromins, meromyosin, misnomered, modernisms, monetarism, nonswimmer, persimmons. | |
+3 letters: consumerism, manometries, matrimonies, meromyosins, misdemeanor, misinformed, monetarisms, nonswimmers, resummoning. | |
+4 letters: anemometries, commanderies, commentaries, commissioner, consumerisms, embroilments, endomorphism, implementors, imprisonment, improvements, micromanages, misdemeanors, nonsymmetric, recommission, spermagonium. | |
+5 letters: ceremonialism, commandership, commiserating, commiseration, commissioners, dynamometries, endomorphisms, gymnospermies, immoderations, immunosorbent, impressionism, imprisonments, memorialising, memorizations, microelements, micromanagers, minicomputers, misgovernment, misimpression, momentariness, nonmainstream, nonmembership, normothermias, postmodernism, recommissions, recommitments. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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