Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To express incorrectly; word improperly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A curse.
  • noun A word uttered amiss.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To word wrongly.
  • noun obsolete A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To word incorrectly.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

mis- +‎ word

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word misword.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.