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Definition: Misread |
MisreadVerb1. Read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data". 2. Interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "misread" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonym: MisreadSynonym: misinterpret (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Misread |
| English words defined with "misread": misinterpret. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Misread my vulnerability (Dear Lie; performing artist: TLC) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In other disorders of the chemical senses, the system may misread and distort an odor, a taste, or a flavor. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The naysayers fear we will not be equal to the challenges of our time, but they misread our history, our heritage, and even today's headlines. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Misread" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 39.74% of the time. "Misread" is used about 78 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 participle) | 39.74% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 26.92% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20.51% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.82% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 78 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "misread"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lexoj keq. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чета неправилно, тълкувам погрешно. (various references) | |
Chinese | 读" (misreading). (various references) | |
Czech | chybnì èíst. (various references) | |
Farsi | غلطخواندن , بدتعبیرکردن (Misconsture, Miscount), بدترجمه کردن , بدخواندن . (various references) | |
French | mal lire, mal interpréter (misconstrue, misinterpret). (various references) | |
German | falsch lesen (to misread). (various references) | |
Greek | κακοδιαβάζω, παρεξηγώ (misconstrue, misinterpret, misjudge, misunderstand), αναγινώσκω εσφαλμενώσ, διαβάζω εσφαλμένα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszul olvas (to misread). (various references) | |
Indonesian | salah membaca. (various references) | |
Italian | leggere erroneamente. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 読み誤る (to mispronounce, to misread), 読み損う (to mispronounce, to misread), 見誤る (to misread, to mistake s'one for s'one else). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よみそ"なう (to mispronounce, to misread), よみあやまる (to mispronounce, to misread), みあやまる (to misread, to mistake s'one for s'one else). (various references) | |
Manx | meelhaih. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isreadmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ler mal, interpretar mal (misconstrue, misinterpret, wrest), compreender mal (misapprehend, misconceive, mistake, misunderstand). (various references) | |
Romanian | interpreta greşit (gloss, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, pervert), citi greşit. (various references) | |
Russian | читать неправильно, неправильно истолковывать (misconstrue). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pogrešno pročitati. (various references) | |
Spanish | leer mal, interpretar mal (misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, twist), equivocarse al leer. (various references) | |
Swedish | läsa fel på. (various references) | |
Turkish | yanlış yorumlamak (give a wrench to, misconstrue, misinterpret, warp, wrench), yanlış okumak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | читати неправильно. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "misread": misreading, misreads. (additional references) | |
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"Misread" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maread, masrhead, Mehrdad, Mepstead, Milstead, mir-adn, mirea, Mirsad, miryad, Misarden, Misera, Miserden, Mulready, Simrad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misread" (pronounced mi'srē"d) |
| 3 | -r ē" d | agreed, Brede, breed, creed, decreed, degreed, disagreed, freed, greed, Reed, reread, screed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: admires, sedarim, sidearm. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: admire, aiders, aimers, amides, armies, deairs, dermas, dermis, dimers, disarm, dreams, irades, madres, medias, raised, ramies, redias, resaid. | |
-2 letters: aider, aides, aimed, aimer, aired, amide, amids, amies, amirs, arise, armed, aside, dames, dares, deair, dears, deism, derma, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, drams, dream, dries, emirs, ideas, irade, madre, maids, mairs, mares, marse. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: admirers, disarmed, disarmer, dismaler, jemidars, madeiras, marrieds, mermaids, midyears, misgrade, misheard, misrated, misreads, readmits, semiarid, semihard. | |
+2 letters: admitters, airdromes, amberoids, amortised, coadmires, decigrams, diameters, diemakers, disarmers, disembark, dramatise, dramedies, dreamiest, firedamps, ideograms, jeremiads, kaiserdom, maravedis, marinades, mediators, medicares, meridians, midranges, midstream, misframed, misgraded, misgrades, misleader, misleared, mismarked, misparsed, misparted, misraised, mistraced, moralised, muraenids, mydriases, nursemaid, preadmits, romanised, semidwarf, spermatid, tidemarks, timecards, zemindars. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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