Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mistransact

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-trans-act
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To transact badly.

Example Sentences

"The Santa Fe Railroad is not a bunch of stockholders who meet every now and then to transact or mistransact their business, but it's the individual I meet."
"she finds that the earliest developmental levels have been mistransacted."
"The literature surveyed in Noll and Krier suggests that A and B might "mistransact" from the standpoint of their own interests because they process certain kinds of information in counterproductive ways."

Etymology

From mis- + transact.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

mistransacts (present, singular) mistransacting (participle, present) mistransacted (participle, past) mistransacted (past)

Questions

What does mistransact mean?: To transact badly.
Where does mistransact come from?: From mis- + transact.

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