mistalk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors.
verb
To talk inappropriately, misleadingly, mistakenly, or otherwise untruely.
Example Sentences
- "The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word. If the error is plain, and leaves no room for doubt that it is an error, don't copy that error."
- "Freud merges the two communicative scenes in his writing : the restricted clinical one with its specificity of talking, mistalking, listening , mislistening, and the larger public one of writing and reading."
- "Amazed, the audience looked at each other. What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?"
- "But the only thing that he retained of this first study was a certain "breathlessness" which is not absent in Shelley, but which assumes quite different form in Browning, and which is in fact the right name for his much mistalked of "obscurity.""
- "I don't aim to mistalk ye. I jest want to tell ye how it was."
- "For 11 months he's been mistalking about my record, misdirecting it, misstating it."