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The word
مُخْطِئ

mukhti'

wrong, mistaken
Arabicمُخْطِئ
Arabizimukhti'
Translationwrong, mistaken
TypeAdjective
Rootخ ط ء
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُخْطِئ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh

The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.

Type:O
04
Letter
ط
ṭāʾ

An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.

Type:'
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
ئ
hamza on yāʾ
ʾ

A glottal stop carried on a dotless yāʾ.

Type:Z
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does mukhti' mean in Arabizi?

mukhti' is how you write مُخْطِئ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “wrong, mistaken”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 7 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Oخ
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05'ط
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07Zئ
Composedمُخْطِئ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for mukhti':

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentمُخْطِئmukhti'the base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineمُخْطِئةmukhti'afor a feminine subject
Pluralمُخْطِئونmukhti'unfor three or more
مُخْطِئ
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.