• IPA: /ˈmɪs.hæp/

mishap (plural mishaps)

1. An accident, mistake, or problem.

   Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:

     He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.

2. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
   • circa 1593 William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,

     Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,

     Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!

• French: erreur, accident
• German: Missgeschick
• Italian: contrattempo, incidente
• Russian: несча́стье
• Spanish: percance

mishap (mishaps, present participle mishapping; past and past participle mishapped)

1. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.