I broke my leg in two places during a skiing mishap.
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Mishap
//ˈmɪshæp//
Synonyms for "mishap" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (23)
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Translations
49 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δυσημερία noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- συμφορά noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- σύμπτωμα noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Bulgarian
2 entries- злополука noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- лош късмет noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Catalan
1 entries- accident noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 意外 noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- 閃失 /闪失 noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Dutch
4 entries- ongeluk noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- pech noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- probleem noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- vergissing noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Finnish
1 entries- kommellus noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
French
3 entries- accident noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- erreur noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- malheur noun (ill-luck; misfortune; mischance)
Galician
3 entries- amoladela noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- empeno noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- esquencia noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
German
4 entries- Malheur noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- Missgeschick noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- kleine Ungeschicktheit noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- kleines Unglück noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Ingrian
2 entries- sormus noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- vahinko noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Irish
1 entries- taisme noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Italian
2 entries- contrattempo noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- incidente noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Japanese
1 entries- 不運 noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Khmer
1 entries- គ្រោះ noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Latin
2 entries- cassus noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- cāsus noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قضا noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Polish
2 entries- niepowodzenie noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- nieszczęście noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Portuguese
1 entries- acidente noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Russian
2 entries- несча́стье noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- неуда́ча noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Spanish
1 entries- percance noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Swedish
1 entries- missöde noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Turkish
3 entries- aksilik noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- kaza noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- talihsizlik noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Vietnamese
4 entries- nạn noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- nạn noun (ill-luck; misfortune; mischance)
- rủi noun (ill-luck; misfortune; mischance)
- xui noun (ill-luck; misfortune; mischance)
Welsh
2 entries- anffawd noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
- damwain noun (accident, mistake, or problem)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I had a small mishap.
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I had a mishap.
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Luck is our mother, mishap — our educator.
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