mistake

Verb

1. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To misunderstand (someone).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
4. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

Noun

1. An error.
2. A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪˈsteɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mistaken

Cognate with Icelandic: mistaka

Cognate with Swedish: missta

In summary

From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.

Synonyms

error

fault

blunder

wrong

slip

aberration

err

lapse

failure

misunderstanding

flaw

misunderstand

accident

make an error

sin

negligence

faux pas

omission

offence

bad

👎

misjudge

defect

delusion

calamity

oversight

catastrophe

misapprehension

bungle

goof

bug

🐛

miss

disaster

mistaken

misinterpret

incorrect

misidentify

confuse

misconception

misconstrue

bloomer

make a mistake

misapprehend

misdeed

shortcoming

be wrong

inaccuracy

erroneous

gaffe

discrepancy

boo-boo

Translations

erreur

Fehler

errore

sbaglio

error

faute

equivocación

fout

erro

Irrtum

λάθος

pomyłka

vergissing

błąd

error

Sentences

If he makes a buying mistake , it doesn't affect him much .