Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mismumble

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-mum-ble
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To mumble the wrong words.

Example Sentences

"He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily."
"In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics."
"In a side remark intended for me, and which struck me like a shaft, Culpepper, as vain a fellow as ever mismumbled an author's lines, remarked to Miss Hatch that an elephant would stretch his chain to reach a bonbon."

Etymology

From mis- + mumble.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

mismumbles (present, singular) mismumbling (participle, present) mismumbled (participle, past) mismumbled (past)

Questions

What does mismumble mean?: To mumble the wrong words.
Where does mismumble come from?: From mis- + mumble.

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