mistake

1. 1.

   identify incorrectly

   “Don't mistake her for her twin sister”

   Synonymsmisidentify

   Broaderidentify

   Narrowerconfuse
2. 2.

   to make a mistake or be incorrect

   Synonymserrslip

   Narrowermisrememberstumblemisjudgefall for

Other forms of mistake

plural

mistakes·

past tense or participle

mistaken

past tense or participle

mistook

present participle

mistaking·

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 mistake

What does mistake mean?

mistake means "a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mistake?

mistake has 2 syllables: mi-stake. The stress falls on "stake". In IPA it is /mɪˈsteɪk/.

What is another word for mistake?

Close synonyms include error, fault, misunderstanding, misapprehension, 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 mistake a common word?

mistake is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 mistake?

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