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by mistake

by mistake prepositional phrase: by accident; without the intention to do so.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) By accident; without the intention to do so.
    • Today I took your packed lunch to work by mistake.
    Synonyms:
    in error, mistakenly

by mistake meaning in Tamil and Bengali

by mistake in Tamil

தவறாக

by mistake in Bengali

দুর্ঘটনাচক্রে, তেমন কোনো উদ্দেশ্য ছাড়াই

Synonyms of by mistake

Antonyms

Questions about by mistake

What does by mistake mean?
By mistake means by accident; without the intention to do so.
What is by mistake in Tamil?
By mistake in Tamil is தவறாக. See By mistake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is by mistake?
By mistake is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by mistake in the dictionary

  1. by leaps and starts
  2. by left
  3. by little and little
  4. by long chalks
  5. by means of
  6. by mistake
  7. by my faith
  8. by name
  9. by nature
  10. by night
  11. by no manner of means

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Adapted from Wiktionary: by mistake (page history and authors); by mistake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); by mistake (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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