mis-
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
prefix
Failed; in a manner resulting in failure (to do, complete or achieve something).
prefix
Unintentional, accidental, mistaken; unintentionally, accidentally, mistakenly.
Example Sentences
- "misbehaviour; misspelling; to misbehave"
- "misidentification; to misidentify"
- "miscarriage (failed carriage of a pregnancy to term), to miscarry, to misacknowledge"
- "Yes, I did "Buy now", but it was a misclick."
- "I misclicked something on my computer, and now everything is in Hungarian!"
- "misaccusation, to misaccuse"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- From Middle English mys-, mis-, from Old English mis- (“mis-”), from Proto-West Germanic *missa-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“wrongly, badly, mis-”), from the adjective *missaz (whence also miss), from Proto-Indo-European *mitˢtós (“mutual, reciprocal”), from *meyt(h₂)- (“to replace, switch, exchange, swap”), extended from the root *mey- (“to change”). Cognate with Scots mis- (“mis-”), Dutch mis- (“mis-”), German miss-, mis- (“mis-”), Danish mis- (“mis-”), Swedish miss- (“mis-”), Icelandic mis- (“mis-”). Compare also French més-, mé- (“mis-”), from Old French mes- (“mis-”), from Frankish *mis-, *missa- (“mis-”), from the same Proto-Germanic source above.