Mishear

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To hear wrongly; misunderstand.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To hear wrongly.
  • v. To misunderstand.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To hear incorrectly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To mistake in hearing.
  • Word Usage
    "a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct."
    Verb Form
    misheard    mishearing    mishears   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Here    bier    blogosphere    buccaneer    disappear    ear    endear    hear    here    keir