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misplayed

misplayed is the simple past and past participle of misplay.

Meaning of misplay

Verb

misplay (third-person singular simple present misplays, present participle misplaying, simple past and past participle misplayed)

  1. (transitive) To play incorrectly or poorly.
    • I misplayed that tennis shot: I should have hit it to her right instead of her left.

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Questions about misplayed

What is misplayed the simple past and past participle of?
Misplayed is the simple past and past participle of misplay.

Words near misplayed in the dictionary

  1. misplate
  2. misplated
  3. misplates
  4. misplating
  5. misplay
  6. misplayed
  7. misplaying
  8. misplays
  9. misplead
  10. mispleaded
  11. mispleading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misplayed (page history and authors); misplay (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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