misturn

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n/
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/mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n/ · /ˈmɪstɜː(ɹ)n/

Definition of misturn

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
  2. (intransitive)To go wrong; make a wrong turn.

noun

  1. A wrong turn.
    “At one of the dim cross-roads they had made a misturn, and were now wandering around without the slightest notion of where they were going.”
    “They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other.”

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Etymology

From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.

Anagrams of misturn

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