[1520–30; mis-1 + become]This word is first recorded in the period 1520–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ballast, bias, junior, lapse, ticketmis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust