mismean

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7

Definition of mismean

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.
    “If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter.”
    “To mismean is not to mean; to mismean is to honor a meaning glimpsed but unmeant.”

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Etymology

From mis- + mean.

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