mishandle

Other forms of mishandle

past tense

mishandled·

present participle

mishandling·

third person

mishandles·

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 mishandle

What does mishandle mean?

mishandle means "make a mess of, destroy or ruin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mishandle?

mishandle has 3 syllables: mi-shan-dle. The stress falls on "shan". In IPA it is /mɪsˈhændəl/.

What is another word for mishandle?

Close synonyms include botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up. 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 mishandle a common word?

mishandle 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 mishandle?

4 words rhyme with mishandle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.