mistake
English
/mɪˈsteɪk/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- (transitive) To misunderstand (someone).
- (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
- (obsolete) To take or choose wrongly.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mistaken borrowed from Old Norse mistaka (miscarry, take in error) prefix from English take.
Origin
English
take
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betake English
- caretake English
- entertake English
- foretake English
- fortake English
- intake English
- mistakability English
- mistakable English
- mistakably English
- mistakeable English
- mistakeably English
- mistakeless English
- mistakelessness English
- mistaker English
- mistakest English
- mistaketh English
- offtake English
- ontake English
- outtake English
- overtake English
- retake English
- stocktake English
- take English
- takeable English
- takeaway English
- takeover English
- taker English
- takest English
- undertake English
- unmistakability English
- unmistakable English
- unmistakableness English
- unmistakably English
- unmistakeable English
- uptake English
- wapentake English
- withtake English
- wrongtake English
- teikata Finnish
- mistake French
- misstag Swedish
- ミス Japanese
- mistaken Middle English
- taken Middle English
- mistaka Old Norse
- teki Sranan Tongo
- misték Antillean Creole
- tek Jamaican Creole
- take
- taker
- intake
- retake
- uptake
- takest
- ontake
- betake
- offtake
- fortake
- outtake
- mistaker
- overtake
- takeable
- caretake
- takeaway
- withtake
- takeover
- foretake
- entertake
- stocktake
- mistaketh
- undertake
- wapentake
- mistakest
- wrongtake
- mistakably
- mistakable
- mistakeably
- mistakeless
- mistakeable
- unmistakable
- unmistakably
- unmistakeable
- mistakability
- unmistakability
- mistakelessness
- unmistakableness