mislead

Other forms of mislead

past tense or participle

misled

present participle

misleading·

third person

misleads·

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 mislead

What does mislead mean?

mislead 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 mislead?

mislead has 2 syllables: mi-slead. The stress falls on "slead". In IPA it is /mɪˈslid/.

What is another word for mislead?

Close synonyms include misdirect, misguide, lead astray, misinform. 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 mislead a common word?

mislead is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.