mistext

present singular third person mistexts · participle present mistexting · participle past mistexted · past mistexted

1. To make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.

   Or had Michael misheard or mistexted?

   2009, Lisa Gee, Stage Mum, page 150

   2 more examples

   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

plural mistexts

1. A text message that was mistexted.

   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

   2 more examples

   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

   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