Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misconfident

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-con-fi-dent
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.

Example Sentences

"Such men, instead of convincing, yield; and make themselves miserable, and their opposites foolishly proud and misconfident."

Etymology

From mis- + confident.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

more misconfident (comparative) most misconfident (superlative)

Questions

What does misconfident mean?: Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
Where does misconfident come from?: From mis- + confident.

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