mistake: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 13 letter points · starts with M · ends with E
Meaning of mistake
verb
- transitive
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Example: Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- obsolete, transitive
To misunderstand (someone).
- intransitive, obsolete
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
- obsolete, rare
To take or choose wrongly.
Listed forms: mistakes, mistaking, mistook, mistaken.
Source: Wiktionary — mistake.
noun
An error.
Example: There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
Listed forms: mistakes.
Source: Wiktionary — mistake.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for mistake.
noun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
noun
an understanding of something that is not correct
- misunderstanding
- misapprehension
noun
part of a statement that is not correct
verb
identify incorrectly
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is mistake in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of mistake
M(3) + I(1) + S(1) + T(1) + A(1) + K(5) + E(1) = 13 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of mistake
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from mistake
135 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in mistake. Showing up to 24, longest first.