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mistakingly

mistakingly is the alternative form of mistakenly.

Meaning of mistakenly

Adverb

mistakenly (not comparable)

  1. Wrongly; erroneously.
    • I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
  2. By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).
    • Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.

Origin of mistakingly

From mistaking + -ly.

Questions about mistakingly

What is mistakingly the alternative form of?
Mistakingly is the alternative form of mistakenly.

Words near mistakingly in the dictionary

  1. mistakes windmills for giants
  2. mistakest
  3. mistaketh
  4. mistaking
  5. mistaking windmills for giants
  6. mistakingly
  7. mistakings
  8. mistal
  9. mistalk
  10. mistalked
  11. mistalking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistakingly (page history and authors); mistakenly (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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