mistaste
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/mɪsˈteɪst/
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/mɪsˈteɪst/ · /ˈmɪsteɪst/
Definition of mistaste
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete, transitive)To overindulge in food or drink
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verb
- (obsolete, transitive)To overindulge in food or drink
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(obsolete, transitive)To take wrongly or in error; mistake; err
“I staid at Belgrade some weeks longer, but thought to go no more that way, and by this strange discovery I made hereby of womens temper, I resolv'd to bear in my memory two maxims of this country, which are, if I mistaste not, left as follows.”
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(archaic, transitive)To taste wrongly or in error
“The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.”
noun
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A wrong, bad, or illicit taste
“Still, my palate was alive, questing for the slightest mistaste. But there was none.”
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(archaic)An error; mistake
“A mistake is really a mistaste. The most striking use of the sense of taste is in More's choice of persuasio to characterize the basic way mind is moved and guided. This is not surprising.”
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Etymology
From Middle English mistasten, equivalent to mis- + taste.
Words you can make from mistaste
194 playable · top: ETATISMS (10 pts)
Best play etatisms 10 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
8 words6-letter words
17 words5-letter words
50 words- AMIES 7 pts
- AMISS 7 pts
- EMITS 7 pts
- ITEMS 7 pts
- MAIST 7 pts
- MASES 7 pts
- MASSE 7 pts
- MASTS 7 pts
- MATES 7 pts
- MATTE 7 pts
- MATTS 7 pts
- MEATS 7 pts
- MESAS 7 pts
- METIS 7 pts
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- MITES 7 pts
- MITTS 7 pts
- SATEM 7 pts
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- SIMAS 7 pts
- SMITE 7 pts
- STEAM 7 pts
- STEMS 7 pts
- STIME 7 pts
- STIMS 7 pts
- TAMES 7 pts
- TAMIS 7 pts
- TEAMS 7 pts
- TIMES 7 pts
- ASSET 5 pts
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- SATIS 5 pts
- SEATS 5 pts
- SETTS 5 pts
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- STATE 5 pts
- STATS 5 pts
- STETS 5 pts
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- TASES 5 pts
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- TESTA 5 pts
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4-letter words
61 words- AIMS 6 pts
- AMIE 6 pts
- AMIS 6 pts
- EMIT 6 pts
- ISMS 6 pts
- ITEM 6 pts
- MAES 6 pts
- MASS 6 pts
- MAST 6 pts
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- MITT 6 pts
- SAME 6 pts
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- TAME 6 pts
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- TIME 6 pts
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3-letter words
39 words- AIM 5 pts
- AMI 5 pts
- EMS 5 pts
- ISM 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAS 5 pts
- MAT 5 pts
- MES 5 pts
- MET 5 pts
- MIS 5 pts
- SIM 5 pts
- TAM 5 pts
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- TAT 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TES 3 pts
- TET 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIS 3 pts
- TIT 3 pts
2-letter words
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