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Miscast

Definition: Miscast

Miscast

Verb

1. Cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Miscast

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Miscast

"Miscast" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Miscast" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)66.67%6143,867
Lexical Verb (past tense)11.11%1339,140
Noun (singular)11.11%1339,140
Adjective (general or positive)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Miscast

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

miscast

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Miscast

Language Translations for "miscast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

حساب غلطکردن , بناحق انداختن , برای نقش خودمناسب نبودن . (various references)

   

German

  

fehlbesetzen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακατάλληλοσ (improper, inappropriate, inapt, inconvenient, ineligible, unapt, unfit, unsuitable). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

salah pilih. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscastmay

   

Romanian

  

face o proastã distribuţie. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

давать неподходящую роль. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ge fel roll. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yanlış rol dağıtımı yapmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Miscast

Derivations

Words beginning with "miscast": miscasting, miscasts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Miscast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: isocost, Kilcast, mercats, Mesyats, midshaft, Misyats, Morcoast, Moscoso. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Miscast"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "miscast" (pronounced mi'ska"st)
4-k a" s tcast, caste, precast, recast.
3-a" s taghast, amassed, assed, Bast, blast, classed, fast, gassed, Gast, glassed, grassed, harassed, hast, lambaste, last, massed, mast, passed, past, surpassed, unsurpassed, vast.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Miscast

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mastics, misacts.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-s-s-t"

-1 letter: maists, mastic, misact.

-2 letters: amiss, casts, cists, maist, masts, micas, mists, satis, scams, scats, simas, tamis.

-3 letters: acts, aims, aits, amis, asci, cams, cast, cats, cist, isms, macs, mass, mast, mats, mica, miss, mist, sacs, sati, scam, scat, sics, sima, sims, sits, smit, tams, tass, tics.

-4 letters: act, aim, ais, ait, ami, ass, cam.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: cambists, casteism, massicot, miscasts, tachisms.

 

+2 letters: acrotisms, actinisms, activisms, atticisms, autecisms, campsites, casteisms, ceramists, iotacisms, masochist, massicots, mastiches, mistraces, monastics, mosaicist, ostracism, scimetars, scimitars, semantics, simulcast, tachismes.

 

+3 letters: alchemists, armistices, asceticism, asthmatics, autoecisms, catechisms, clematises, costmaries, cymbalists, encomiasts, gymnastics, machinists, mahlsticks, marcasites, masochists, masseteric, masticates, maulsticks, mechanists, miscasting, miscreants, miscreates, mislocates, mismatches, mispatches, misteaches, mosaicists, mustachios, onomastics, ostracisms, schematics, schematism, schismatic, simulcasts, stigmatics, stomachics, strabismic, systematic, timescales.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Miscast


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 73 63 61 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    ...    -.-.    .-    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0073 0063 0061 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47758569678586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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