mislead
/mɪsˈliːd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere"
- "The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin"
- "If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer."
- "The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead."
Etymology
From Middle English mysleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”). By surface analysis, mis- + lead.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mysleden, mislǣdan, *missalaidijaną