Mrs vs. Misses — What's the Difference?

The title used before a surname or full name to address or refer to a married woman without a higher or honorific or professional title

To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with

Used as a courtesy title for a married, widowed, or divorced woman before her own surname or full name

To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).

Used as a courtesy title for a married or widowed woman before the surname or full name of her husband

To fail to perceive, experience, or understand

Used in informal titles for a married woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity

To fail to accomplish or achieve

A form of address for a married woman

To fail to attend or perform

To fail to answer correctly

To fail to benefit from; let slip

To escape or avoid

To discover the absence or loss of

To be without; lack

To feel the lack or loss of

To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something

To be unsuccessful; fail

To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

A failure to hit or make contact with something.

A failure to be successful

The misfiring of an engine.

Miss Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a girl or single woman.

Used as a form of polite address for a girl or young woman

A young unmarried woman.

Miss Used in informal titles for a young woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity

Mis·ses A series of clothing sizes for women and girls of average height and proportions.

Plural of miss

A range of clothing sizes for women of average height and build.

Alternative spelling of missus(Mrs)