misguide

Other forms of misguide

past tense

misguided·

present participle

misguiding·

third person

misguides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about misguide

What does misguide mean?

misguide means "lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in misguide?

misguide has 2 syllables: mis-guide. The stress falls on "guide". In IPA it is /mɪsˈɡaɪd/.

What is another word for misguide?

Close synonyms include mislead, misdirect, lead astray, misadvise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is misguide a common word?

misguide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with misguide?

1 word rhymes with misguide. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.