Difference between Misidentify and Mistake

What is the difference between Misidentify and Mistake?

Misidentify as a verb is to identify incorrectly. while Mistake as a verb is to understand wrongly, taking one thing for another.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To identify incorrectly.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An error; a blunder.A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another.To make an error, to do something in wrong way.

Example sentence: The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

We hope you now know whether to use Misidentify or Mistake in your sentence.