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Definitions: MISTOOK |
MISTOOK1. Imp. & obs. p. p. of Mistake. Imperative & obsolete past participle1. Of Mistake |
Date "MISTOOK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: MISTOOK |
| English words defined with "MISTOOK": confound, confuse ♦ mistake ♦ regard, respect. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MISTOOK": Alifanfaron ♦ Myron. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | South Africa | The captain reported that he mistook the victim for an escaped prisoner who was attempting to flee from a farmhouse that the police had surrounded. (references) |
Gambia | On January 16, soldiers shot and killed a soldier in plain clothes who they mistook for a drug trafficker in Omorto, a small border village in the Western Division. (references) | |
Burundi | On June 2, government soldiers shot and killed nine civilians who were walking in the outskirts of Bujumbura; the soldiers reportedly mistook the civilians for rebels. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MISTOOK" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MISTOOK" is used about 70 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
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 |
the man who mistook his wife for a hat | 12 |
mistook | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MISTOOK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 误认了. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trompai, trompâmes, trompèrent, trompa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verwechselte (confounded, confused). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | téved (err, miscalculate, mistake, mistaken, to be in the wrong, to be wrong, to fault, to go wrong, to miscalculate, to miss the cushion, to mistake, to trip), eltéveszt (Miss, mistaken, to ball up, to mistake, to muff), összetéveszt (mistaken, mix up, to confound, to confuse, to mistake, to mix up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 틀 다. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istookmay trecut de la mistake. (various references) от mistake. (various references) pret de mistake. (various references) sai lầm (erroneous, gaffe, mistake, wrongly), lỗi (error, mistake, trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"MISTOOK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Istok, Maisouk, Masoko, mastok, matooke, Maxstoke, midtour, mishooks, mistek, Mistivoj, mistro, Mitsou, Mitsouko, Mitsuko, Mitsuo, Mittoo, mosotho, Mostovoi, Mostovoy, mostow, Mozdok, Mustakov, Mustow, Mutoko, Mutsuki, Mutsuo, Mystiko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MISTOOK" (pronounced mi'stuh"k) |
| 3 | -t uh" k | overtook, retook, took, undertook. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-m-o-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: kotos, moist, moots, omits, skimo, stook. | |
-3 letters: kist, kits, kois, koto, miso, mist, moos, moot, mosk, most, mots, omit, oots, skim, skit, smit, sook, soot, toms, took, toom. | |
-4 letters: ism, its, kit, koi, kos, mis, moo, mos, mot, oms, oot, sim, sit, ski, som, sot, tis, tom, too, tsk. | |
-5 letters: is, it, mi, mo. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-m-o-o-s-t" | |
+3 letters: broomstick, kinetosome, motorbikes, outsmoking. | |
+4 letters: broomsticks, kinetosomes, leukotomies, toolmakings. | |
+5 letters: keratotomies. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 49 53 54 4F 4F 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .. ... - --- --- -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001111 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M I S T O O K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0049 0053 0054 004F 004F 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47435354494945 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, kínai, 중국, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, chino |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, francia, "랑스, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, német, 독일, neamţ, немецкий, alemán, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, coreano, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, Roumain, rumäne, román, 루마니아, român, румынский, румын, rumano |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, orosz, 러시아, русский, ruso, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, 스페인, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, español |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, 트남, вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, angol, 영국, englezesc, английский, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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