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Definition: Mistake |
MistakeNoun1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults". 2. An understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister". 3. Part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors". Verb1. Identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister". 2. Mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary". 3. To make a mistake or be incorrect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mistake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Mistake \Mis*take"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & obs. past participle Mistook; past participle Mistaken; Mistaking.]. (references) |
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Aerospace | An error, usually large, resulting from a human failing or an equipment malfunction. (references) |
Computing | A human action that produces an unintended result. (1)The failure of a human to carry out an operation in the required manner, e. g. in writing a program, or in operating a piece of equipment(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mistake of law and mistake of fact are two types of defense by excuse, via which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law or liable for damages under a civil law action.Most criminal courts do not recognize mistake of law; in which the defendant argues that they never knew of the law and thus should not be held liable. This defense is often countered with the cliched maxim: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."
Mistake of fact is sometimes seen as valid; for example, if one were to go to an airport and pick up a bag which looked like one's own; and that bag were to contain a bomb, one might argue that a mistake had led to possession of the bomb, or another common example, taking another person's coat from a coatrack when you intended to take your own, this can also be interpreted as the lack of a mens rea. For a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on the mistaken belief defence see: R. v. Park.
In the civil law mistake may be used as a means to invalidate a contract, the famous case of the Peerless ship is an example in the case called Raffles v. Wichelhaus. The defendant had made an order for the purchase of cotton for goods arriving on a certain boat Peerless from Bombay leaving in October. However a different boat arrived called Peerless, also from Bombay, but having left in December. The plaintiff merchant sought to enforce the contract for the sale of cotton, but the defendant refused stating that it was not the cotton that he had ordered. Therefore there was a mistake and there was no contract.
See also Error.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mistake."
Synonyms: MistakeSynonyms: error (n), fault (n), misapprehension (n), misunderstanding (n), confound (v), confuse (v), err (v), misidentify (v), slip (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: mistaking (computing), mistook (computing). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Certainty | Adverb: certainly; Adjective: for certain, certes, sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto, sure enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course, a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth; (truly); at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute, coute qu'il coute; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst; come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or shine. |
Error | Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography. |
Err; be -in error; Adjective:, be mistaken; Verb: be deceived; (duped); mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error; Noun: be in the wrong, blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate; (misjudge). | |
Failure | Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk. |
Misinterpretation | Verb: misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake. |
Noun: misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis; eisegesis; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake. | |
Negation | Phrase: there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in faedera; a thousand times no. |
Unskillfulness | Mistake; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old bottles. |
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Screenplays | Your only mistake is that you didn't dump her first (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) If you think this is a mistake, come right out and say so. Well, I guess it's about time for me to be heading home, isn't it (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) Pippin, I think we made a mistake in leaving the Shire (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Well I don't think that's a mistake you'll be needing to make again anytime soon is it (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | You're my favorite mistake (My Favorite Mistake; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) All I made was one mistake (Second Chance; performing artist: 38 Special) BUT I'LL KNOW NEVER TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) Is all a big mistake (Hard Habit to Break; performing artist: Chicago) We independent women, some mistake us for whores (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) | |
Clever | No one is listening until you make a mistake. (references; author: unknown) Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake. (references; author: unknown) An error doesn't become a mistake until you choose to ignore it. (references; author: unknown) Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. (references; author: unknown) When you make a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bride by Mistake (1944) The Stork's Mistake (1942) One Big Mistake (1940) Opened by Mistake (1940) Their First Mistake (1932) | |
Song Titles | It's A Mistake (performing artist: Men At Work) My Favorite Mistake (performing artist: Sheryl Crow) | |
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 | A slight mistake. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Highly probable mistake at the forthcoming Paris Exhibition, (where it is understood the aboriginal element is to be largely represented) / JG (?). Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A lying in visit; or a short sighted mistake. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A lying-in visit; or a short-sighted mistake!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Arial's Many Moods 3" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Arial engaged in a disturbing phone call....it turns out there has been a terrible mistake, she is not the winner of the Publisher's Clearing House grand prize sweepstakes." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | The first mistake in public business is going into it. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Biggest damfool mistake I ever made. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Without music life would be a mistake. |
George Eliot | Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. |
John Wooden | Never mistake activity for achievement. |
| Don't mistake activity for achievement. | |
Samuel Smiles | He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. |
W. S. Gilbert | Man is nature's sole mistake. |
William Ellery Channing | Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common- wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | You could not give me a greater reproof for the mistake I fell into |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | And I rubs my hand on the wall where he got over, and there was soot on it, and no mistake. |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | At about one-thirty they eventually realise their mistake and shut up, just as the major dogfights of the evening are getting under way. These usually start with a few minor bouts between the more enthusiastic youngsters, and then the full chorus of heavyweights weighs in with a fine impression of what it might be like to fall into the pit of hell with the London Symphony Orchestra |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Once only Cosette made a mistake, and startled him. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But if he did it one time by mistake what would he do to go to confession |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I think that I do not mistake. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sometimes in ALPS, the B cells make a mistake. (references) | |
Even people who know a lot about what they are sensitive to occasionally make a mistake. (references) | ||
Most of our hospitals know to send all samples here, but the occasional mistake with a new employee may occur. (references) | ||
Business | Today, PCL is known only for that mistake. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | However, according to press reports, the Government in late September reportedly told SNLD Chairman Khun Tun Oo that the actions had been a mistake. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The two opposition members claimed that airport authorities told them they were not allowed to leave "by order of the KNB leadership." Government authorities claimed the denial was a mistake, apologized to the two activists and returned their passports the next day; the activists did not attempt to reinitiate their travel. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Another mistake was to offer global brands at global prices, without any customization. (references) |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Israeli authorities later stated that the killing of the women was a mistake. (references) |
Korea | The Government denies the existence of such prison camps but admits that there are "education centers" for persons who "commit crimes by mistake." A defector who had been a ranking official in the Ministry of Public Security stated that there were two types of detention areas. (references) | |
Travel | Spain | The biggest mistake a U.S. businessperson can make is to assume doing business in Spain is just like doing business in Mexico and Latin America; Italy or France would be a better comparison. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | They're six months down the road and realize, wow, what a mistake we've made. How are we going to get out of this one. In walks Mr. Plant. |
Dennis Miller | The real tactical mistake the terrorists made in trying to disrupt our society was that, in attacking us in such a monstrous public way, they brought us together. |
John Breaux | Well, I think there's a lot of blame that can go around all over the place. I think that the tax cut we passed was not a mistake. I supported it. I helped craft it, along with Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee. |
Rod Steiger | Well I don't know. Anyway the point is what I wanted the award for most of all is for about three or four months that you make a mistake you get the best scripts, chance to work with the best people, and the best directors. |
Rudy Giuliani | Terrible mistake. Until you know that you're going to succeed and the level at which you're going to succeed, don't promise mass success. |
Rush Limbaugh | At least when Hitler invaded Poland, Neville Chamberlain admitted his mistake. Clinton simply followed in the footsteps of another foreign policy luminary, the Nobel Appease Prize-winning Jimmy Carter. |
Walter Cronkite | War is hell. And arresting people, particularly if you have made a mistake and they are innocent civilians, can be pretty tough. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Nor do we mistake honorable negotiation for appeasement. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our enemies have always made the same mistake. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | If we make a mistake in this administration, it will be on the side of frankness and openness with the American people. |
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| "Mistake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.94% of the time. "Mistake" is used about 3,670 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) | 95.94% | 3,521 | 2,761 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.69% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.22% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,670 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mistake": and no mistake ♦ by mistake ♦ careless mistake ♦ commit a mistake ♦ commit grave mistake ♦ conceptual mistake ♦ correct a mistake ♦ costly mistake ♦ foolish mistake ♦ gross mistake ♦ huge mistake ♦ in mistake for ♦ make a mistake ♦ make a sad mistake ♦ make mistake ♦ make no mistake ♦ make up for one's mistake ♦ mistake for ♦ mistake smb. for smb. else ♦ mistake smb.'s words ♦ no mistake ♦ put in by mistake ♦ sad mistake ♦ spelling mistake ♦ there never was a greater mistake ♦ trifling mistake ♦ trivial mistake ♦ typing mistake ♦ vital mistake ♦ youthful mistake. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mistake": mistake-plagued, mistake-related. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "mistake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | fout (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Albanian | moskuptim (incomprehension, miscomprehension, misunderstanding), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), lajthitje (aberration, craze, error, miscount, Miss, oversight), lajthis (commit an error, err, go out of one's wits), keqkuptoj (misapprehend, misconceive, mishear, misinterpret, misunderstand), keqkuptim (misapprehension, misunderstand, misunderstanding), gambim (aberration, error), gaboj (betray, cheat, deceive, delude, disappoint, err, fraud, lapse, let down, make a mistake, seduce, swindle), gabim (balk, baulk, boob, delinquency, delusion, error, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, slip, slip up, trip), bëj gabim (err, fluff, misbelieve, misstep, slip up). (various references) | |
Arabic | غلطة (balk, error, fault, inaccuracy, stumble, trip), غلط (lapse, make a mistake, slip up), خطأ في الأسماء, خطأ (balk, error, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, misconception, miss, stumble), أساء فهم, أخطأ (err, fluff, fumble, go wrong, goof, make a mistake, misfire, miss, sin, slip, stumble, trip up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сбърквам (be wrong, go amiss, muff, slip up, step off), криво разбирам, грешка (blooper, blunder, boss, break, defect, demerit, dereliction, error, fault, inaccuracy, inexactitude, lapse, misdoing, misstep, muff, slip up, slipping, snafu), греша (be wrong, err, make a mistake, misstep, sin, wander), заблуждение (errancy, error, misguidance), заблуда (deception, errancy, fallacy, misbelief, phantom, reverie, swiz), бъркам (churn, make, mix, mix up, paddle, rabble, rouse, shuffle, stir), припознавам се в, погрешно разбирам (misapprehend, mishear, misinterpret, misunderstand). (various references) | |
Catalan | error (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Chinese | 錯誤 (error, mistaken), 錯 (blunder, cross, error, fault, uneven, wrong), 誤 (error, to delay, to harm, to miss, to neglect), 訧 (fault), 擰 (stubborn, to pinch, to twist, wring), 差錯 (an accident), 差错, 傎 (inversion, uneven, unsteady). (various references) | |
Czech | chyba (defect, errata, error, failing, fault, inadequacy, lapse, slip, slip up). (various references) | |
Danish | fejl (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Dutch | fout (aberration, erroneous, error, incorrect, mistaken, wrong), vergissing (aberration, error), dwaling (aberration, error), abuis (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Esperanto | eraro (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Faeroese | mistak (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Farsi | اشتباه کردن (Blunder, Fumble, Goof, Miscarry, Miscue, Saturate, Slip), اشتباه (Blame, Erroneous, Error, Fumble, Gaingiving, Goof, Inaccuracy, Slip, Snafu, Wrong), درست نفهمیدن (Misapprehend). (various references) | |
Finnish | virhe (aberration, blunder, error, fault, slip). (various references) | |
French | erreur (misapprehension, misunderstanding), faute (missdeed). (various references) | |
Frisian | flater (aberration, error), fersin (aberration, error). (various references) | |
German | Irrtum (aberrant, aberration, error, fallacy, falsity, pitfall), Fehler (aberration, absence, blemish, bug, defect, deficiency, demerits, error, failing, fault, flaw, flaws, lack, lapse, misstep, mistakes, nonconformance, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise), verwechseln (confound, confuse, get mixed up, get muddled, interchange, mix up, muddle, muddle up, swap, to confound, to confuse), Versehen (aberration, accommodate, discharge, equip, error, fit, hold, inadvertence, look after, occupy, omit, overlook, oversight, perform, provide, provided, see to, stock, supply, take care of). (various references) | |
Greek | παρανοώ (misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand), λάθος (error, false, fault, incorrect, lapse, wrong). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gambim (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טעות (error, fault, oversight, slip up, wrong). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tévedés (blue, bobble, deception, delusion, error, failure, fallacy, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, misprision, miss, oversight, wrong), hiba (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blooper, blue, bobble, clinker, default, demerit, error, failing, failure, fault, flaw, flub-up, glitch, inaccuracy, lapse, malformation, mischief, shortcoming, trouble, wrong). (various references) | |
Icelandic | mistök (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesilapan (error), kesalahan (error, flaw, gaffe, guilt, trespass), kekeliruan (error), kebodohan (boner, dowdy, ignorance). (various references) | |
Irish | dearmad (forget). (various references) | |
Italian | errore (aberrant, aberration, bug, error, fallacy, falsity, fault, lapse, oversight, slip), sbaglio (aberration, error, lapse, slip, slip up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 錯誤 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さいか (accident, approval, calamity, catastrophe, load, loading, remarriage, sanction, the lowest, the worst), てつ (be lost, beautiful, hide, in turn, iron, peace), てぬかり (omission, oversight), あやまり (apology, error, excuse), ごびゅう, いつ (be lost, beautiful, hide, how soon, in turn, peace, when), かご (basket, bier, cage, divine protection, fault, litter, non-standard pronunciation, palanquin), てちがい (blunder), ふかく (angle of dip, blunder, defeat, depression, failure, indiscretion, negligence), おちど (error, fault, guilt), さくご, まちがい, ひがごと (immoral act), しっちゃく (negligence), しっぱい (blunder, failure), ミステーク , かたい (carelessness, certain, difficult, firm, hard, honorable, lower leg, lower limbs, lower part of the body, negligence, solemn, solid, steadfast, stubborn, stuffy writing, unpolished writing). (various references) | |
Korean | 과오. (various references) | |
Malay | salah (aberration, error), kesalahan (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Manx | marranys (error, miscalculation, misunderstanding, oversight, slip up), marran (bloomer, erratum, gaffe, slip). (various references) | |
Maya | sip (to make a mistake). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mistak (aberration, error), feil (aberration, defect, error, fault, flaw, lapse). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kibukashon (aberration, error), kibokashon (aberration, error), fout (aberration, error), fayo (aberration, damage, error), eror (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istakemay.(various references) | |
Polish | pomyłka (aberration, error), błąd (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Portuguese | erro (aberration, balk, boner, bug, delusion, deviation, error, fault, indecorum, lie, miss, slip, solecism, stumble, wrong), defeito (aberration, abuse, blister, blot, bug, error, failing, frailty, imperfection, malformation, shortcoming, taint, vice, weakness). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | erro. (various references) | |
Romanian | smintealã (damage, defect, Folly, harm, hindrance, lunacy, madness, shortcoming), se înşela (be under a delusion, deceive oneself, do wrong to smb., make a mistake, rot, slip up), rãtãcire (aberration, error, roving, wandering), pãcat (error, guilt, offence, peccancy, sin, trespass), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), inexactitate (inaccuracy, incorrectness, inexactitude), inadvertenţã (inadvertence, inadvertency), greşi (be in error, be mistaken, do wrong to smb., err, fail, make a mistake, Miss, nod, overshoot, sin, slip, stand in error, transgress, trespass), greşealå (aberration, error), greşealã (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blunder, defect, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, lapse, miscarriage, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), eroare (aberration, error, fallacy, fault, miscarriage, slip, wrong), confunda (confound, confuse, misaddress, shuffle). (various references) | |
Romansch | far in sbagl (to make a mistake). (various references) | |
Russian | ошибка (aberration, bungle, bust, error, failing, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, muff, slip, slip up, slipup, slip-up, stumble, trip). (various references) | |
Scottish | mearachd (error), amharus (doubt, suspicion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zameniti (commute, exchange, fill in, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant, switch, switch over), zabluda (error, fallacy, misapprehension), pogrešno tumačiti, pobrkati (bungle, confuse, mix up, mull), nesporazum (misunderstanding), greška (blooper, bungle, error, fallacy, foult, goof, lapse, lapsus, miscarriage, slip up, slipup, trip, wrong). (various references) | |
Spanish | error (aberrancy, aberration, bug, error, fallacy, fault, foozle, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, misdeed, misdoing, Miss, misunderstanding, wrong), equivocación (aberration, blunder, equivocation, error, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, oversight), yerro (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Sranan | fowtu (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Swahili | kosa (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Swedish | misstag (aberration, blunder, error, errors, fallacy, lapse, oversight), fel (aberration, Amiss, blemish, corrigendum, defect, demerit, error, errors, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong). (various references) | |
Tagalog | malî (aberration, error), kamalián (aberration, error). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanlışlık (error, falsity, fault, impropriety, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, slip, slip up, wrongness), yanlış anlamak (be at cross-purposes, get hold the wrong end of the stick, get it wrong, get the wrong sow by the ear, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, take a word in the wrong sense, take amiss), yanlış (Amiss, corrigendum, errant, erroneous, error, fallacy, false, fault, improper, inaccuracy, inaccurate, inadvisable, incorrect, inexact, lapse, mis-, miscue, mistaken, untrue, wrong, wrongly, wry), yanılmak (be mistaken, be off, be wrong, come unstuck, err, get the wrong sow by the ear, make a mistake, misapprehend, slip, slip up, stumble, stumble in, stumble into), yanılgı (delusion, error, paralogism), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), başkası sanmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яalсyю. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | непорозуміння (cross purpose, imbroglio, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, unpleasantness), приймати за іншого, помилятися (act amiss, be wrong, do wrong, err, fault, misbelieve, misdeem, wander), помилка (aberration, balk, bloomer, bungle, delusion, error, failing, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, sin, slip, solecism, stumble, trip). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sai lầm (erroneous, gaffe, mistook, wrongly), lỗi (error, mistook, trip). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwall (defect, error, want), camsynied, camsyniad, camgymryd (err), camgymeriad, balc (balk, fault), anghywirdeb (deceit, falseness, inaccuracy). (various references) | |
Yucatec | si'pil (aberration, error, sin, transgression). (various references) | |
Zulu | isiphosiso (aberration, error). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | erratum, error, error, erroris, mendum menda, pecco. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mistake": mistaken, mistakenly, mistaker, mistakers, mistakes. (additional references) | |
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"Mistake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Imotski, Imsak, maistraki, Maqsako, Masatake, Maslanka, matsutake, Maxstoke, Mintaka, misak, misake, Misaki, misgave, mishak, Mishake, mishtake, misstage, misstake, mista, mistek, mistke, mitae, Mitsuko, Motaki, Musaka, Mustajew, mustakil, Mustakov, Mutsuki, Mystiko, Niitaka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mistake" (pronounced mi'stā"k) |
| 4 | -s t ā" k | stake, steak. |
| 3 | -t ā" k | partake, retake, take. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-m-s-t" | |
-1 letter: kismat, kismet, misate, miseat, samite. | |
-2 letters: amies, emits, ikats, items, kames, kites, maist, makes, mates, meats, metis, mikes, mites, samek, satem, skate, skite, smite, stake, steak, steam, stime, takes, tames, tamis, teaks, teams, tikes, times. | |
-3 letters: aims, aits, amie, amis, ates, east, eats, emit, etas, ikat, item, kaes, kame, kami, kats, keas, kist. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-m-s-t" | |
+1 letter: mastlike, mistaken, mistaker, mistakes. | |
+2 letters: antismoke, kamacites, makeshift, mistakers, tidemarks. | |
+3 letters: antismoker, kinematics, makeshifts, marketings, mistakable, mistakenly, samarskite, shirtmaker. | |
+4 letters: antismokers, makeweights, multitasked, printmakers, samarskites, shirtmakers, steelmaking. | |
+5 letters: alkalimeters, embarkations, keratotomies, kleptomanias, mackintoshes, meatpackings, platemakings, steelmakings, taskmistress, unmistakable. | |
| 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. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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