misplay

Other forms of misplay

plural

misplays·

past tense

misplayed·

present participle

misplaying·

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 misplay

What does misplay mean?

misplay means "play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in misplay?

misplay has 2 syllables: mi-splay. The stress falls on "splay".

What is another word for misplay?

Close synonyms include error. 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 misplay a common word?

misplay 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.