mistake

About 18.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

   Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.

2. verb To misunderstand (someone).
3. verb To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
4. verb To take or choose wrongly.
5. noun An error.

   There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.

6. noun A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

Similar words

misapprehension misunderstanding misidentify error fault err confound confuse slip misstatement

Often followed by

of to in and is the was for about

Word family

by mistake her mistake his mistake honest mistake mistaken mistakenly mistaker mistakers mistakes mistaking