mistook
v.v. the past tense of 'mistake'. It means you identified someone or something incorrectly or understood a situation the wrong way.
v. the past tense of 'mistake'. Refers to the act of incorrectly identifying a person or thing, or misinterpreting a situation or statement.
I mistook him for his brother because they look so similar.
She mistook my silence for anger, though I was actually just tired from the long journey.
The witness mistook the shadow of a passing car for a person entering the building, which complicated the initial police investigation.
The verb is transitive and often used with the preposition 'for' when identifying one thing as another.
I mistooked the timeI mistook the timeMistook is already the past tense form of the irregular verb 'mistake'; do not add '-ed'.