mis-sing
/mɪsˈsɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sing incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "The ragas are personified, like the devatā of a mantram; so that to mis-sing a rāga or rāginī is to break the limbs of a god or goddess."
- "I watch and listen to children learning this little song, and through repeated observation of the videotapes and examination of the way the children sing or mis-sing the song, I plumb new depths of understanding music and learning."
- "Still he apprehends that the song has been mis-sung or that he has been scolded for doing something which he did not do, and this apprehending must be classified as belonging to thinking."
- "And remember this other immortal line of the same song you misheard—not to mention mis-sang? 'Olive, the other reindeer.'"
- "She found him a piano teacher so he could learn some of the songs in the music books – his missinging of the tunes was driving her crazy."