wrong
/ˈɹɔŋ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Not working; out of order.
Example Sentences
- "Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong."
- "Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe […]"
- "You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; / Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, / In a vision, or in none, / Is it therefore the less gone?"
- "In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]"
- "Throughout this time, Mystic Wolmar has been trying his luck and mostly getting it wrong - especially in 2006, when he got virtually everything wrong, including the departure of Tony Blair."
- "You're wrong: he's not Superman at all."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wrengʰ- /*wrengʷʰder.? Proto-Germanic *wringaną Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Germanic *-az Proto-Germanic *wrangaz Proto-West Germanic *wrang ▲ Old Norse rangrinflu. Old English wrang Old Norse rangrinflu. Middle English wrong English wrong From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɔŋ/
- British English: /ˈɹɒŋ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wrong (comparative)
most wrong (superlative)
wrongs (plural)
wrongs (present, singular)
wronging (participle, present)
wronged (participle, past)
wronged (past)