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misspoke

misspoke is the simple past of misspeak.

Meaning of misspeak

Verb

misspeak (third-person singular simple present misspeaks, present participle misspeaking, simple past misspoke, past participle misspoken)

  1. (US, ambitransitive) To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
    • Either I misspoke or you misheard.
    Synonyms:
    mistalk
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak insultingly or disrespectfully.

Questions about misspoke

What is misspoke the simple past of?
Misspoke is the simple past of misspeak.

Words near misspoke in the dictionary

  1. missplices
  2. missplicing
  3. missplit
  4. missplits
  5. missplitting
  6. misspoke
  7. misspoken
  8. misspool
  9. misspooled
  10. misspooling
  11. misspools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misspoke (page history and authors); misspeak (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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