[1350–1400; ME ‹ MF mescreance, equiv. to mes-mis-1 + creance ‹ VL *crēdentiacredence]This word is first recorded in the period 1350–1400. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: drag, kick, register, screen, trainmis- 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