mismanage

Questions about mismanage

What does mismanage mean?

mismanage means "manage badly or incompetently".

How many syllables are in mismanage?

mismanage has 3 syllables: mi-sman-age. The stress falls on "sman". In IPA it is /mɪˈsmænɪdʒ/.

What is another word for mismanage?

Close synonyms include mishandle, misconduct. 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 mismanage a common word?

mismanage 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.