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mistext en · NOUN

From mis- + text.

A text message that was mistexted.
- I never understood the logic behind the random late-night mistexts. Is the assumption that, although I wasn't interested before, a random "hello" faux-intended for someone else will make me realize how much I miss him? 2018, Amanda Stauffer, Match Made in Manhattan:
- A person who is interested in you will be able to overlook a gaffe or mistext and will probably think it's kinda funny. 2015 October 19, Julieanne Smolinski, “You Texted Something Stupid to Her. Now What?”, in GQ:
- This was before the ubiquity of mobile phones and the emerging lexicon of mistexts, so it also made an impression because of the closenss of 'light' and 'life'. 2017, Georgia Blain, The Museum of Words:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
mistexts	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From mis- + text.

To make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.
- As I said, I wasn't sure if you were someone who called random numbers to see if anyone would be interested in a ... let's call it a 'spicy' chat, or if you had genuinely mis-texted. 2015, Crystal Green, Sugarbaby:
- Kitty stared at the phone, urging Ivan to respond. It was unlike him to mistext, even as messed up as he usually was. 2022, Thomas K. Carpenter, Sonata of Shadow and Thorn:
- Or had Michael misheard or mistexted? 2009, Lisa Gee, Stage Mum, page 150:

Spelling	Features	Source
mistexted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
mistexted	Tense=Past	lexicographic
mistexts	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
mistexting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic