Miscue

  

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Miscue

Definitions: Miscue

Miscue

Noun

1. A faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball.

2. A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

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


Synonyms: Miscue

Synonyms: parapraxis (n), slip (n), slip-up (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Miscue

DomainTitle

Books

  • Findings of Research in Miscue Analysis: Classroom Implications (reference)

  • Miscue (reference)

  • Miscue Analysis Made Easy : Building on Student Strengths (reference)

  • Miscue Analysis: Applications to Reading Instruction (reference)

  • Reading Miscue Inventory: Alternative Procedures (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Miscue

"Miscue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Miscue" is used about 12 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
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Miscue

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

miscue

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Miscue

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

Farsi 

  

سهو (Blunder, Error, Goof, Inadvertent, Oversight, Slip, Wrong), خطا (Error, Injustice, Lapse, Sin, Sinister, Slip, Transgression, Wrong), اشتباه کردن (Blunder, Fumble, Goof, Miscarry, Mistake, Saturate, Slip). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gikszer (bloomer, blooper, false note, goose-note, trip). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur cor-vuilley. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscuemay

   

Turkish

  

yanlış vuruş yapma, yanlış (Amiss, corrigendum, errant, erroneous, error, fallacy, false, fault, improper, inaccuracy, inaccurate, inadvisable, incorrect, inexact, lapse, mis-, mistake, mistaken, untrue, wrong, wrongly, wry), dalgınlıkla yapılan hata. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lỗi lầm (misdoing, peccancy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Miscue

Derivations

Words beginning with "miscue": miscued, miscues. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Miscue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biscue, discue, Kiscoe, Macpuke, Masucci, Mas'ud, mesclun, Mescus, misc, miscare, misce, miscel, miscle, Mishcon, Mishut, Miskine, misque, Misu, misuc, misuer, Moucure, muscu, Simcoe. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Miscue"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "miscue" (pronounced mi"skyuw")
4-s k y uw"askew, skew.
3-k y uw"cue, queue.

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

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Anagrams: Miscue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cesium.

Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-s-u"

-1 letter: mesic, music.

-2 letters: cues, ecus, emic, emus, ices, mice, mise, muse, scum, semi, sice.

-3 letters: cis, cue, cum, ecu, ems, emu, ice, ism, mis, mus, sec, sei, sic, sim, sue, sum, use.

-4 letters: em, es, is, me, mi, mu, si, um, us.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-s-u"
 

+1 letter: caesium, ceriums, cesiums, miscued, miscues, murices, pumices.

 

+2 letters: autecism, caesiums, clumsier, coliseum, crummies, meniscus, muckiest, munchies, musicale, numerics, pumicers, scumlike, scummier.

 

+3 letters: autecisms, autoecism, calumnies, cherubims, chummiest, clumpiest, clumsiest, coliseums, communise, costumier, crumbiest, crummiest, customise, customize, dulcimers, ecumenics, ecumenism, ecumenist, encomiums, epicurism, eunuchism, incumbers, lemniscus, leucemias, leukemics, luminesce, luteciums, manicures, masculine, meconiums, mercuries, micaceous, midcourse, miniscule, minuscule, monecious, mucilages, muscadine, muscarine, muscovite, musicales, pumiceous, pumicites, scummiest, simulacre, smutchier, turmerics.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Miscue


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

4D 69 73 63 75 65

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 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0073 0063 0075 0065

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

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

477585698771

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INDEX

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


  

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