What is another word for error?
1053 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɛɹə], [ ˈɛɹə], [ ˈɛ_ɹ_ə]
The term 'error' refers to a mistake, fault, or inaccuracy in a process or decision. There are a plethora of synonyms for this word, such as blunder, flub, fault, flaw, mistake, omission, inaccuracy, and slip-up. Blunder is used to refer to a clumsy and careless mistake, while flub and slip-up refer to a mistake or fault caused by a lack of attention. Fault and flaw are more commonly used to identify defects or weaknesses in a system or product, while mistake and inaccuracy can be used interchangeably to denote any type of error. Overall, these synonyms provide a range of options for describing the many forms of errors and mistakes that can occur in various contexts.
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Similar words for error:
- act (noun)
- blooper (noun)
- blunder (noun)
- boner (noun)
- bug (noun)
- default (noun)
- defect (noun)
- delusion (noun)
- disappointment (noun)
- discrepancy (noun)
- erratum (noun)
- error (noun)
- failing (noun)
- failure (noun)
- fallacy (noun)
- false impression (noun)
- falsehood (noun)
- falsity (noun)
- fault (noun)
- faux pas (noun)
- fiasco (noun)
- fluff (noun)
- frailty (noun)
- guilt (noun)
- heresy (noun)
- ignis fatuus (noun)
- illusion (noun)
- impiety (noun)
- incorrectness (noun)
- indiscretion (noun)
- infraction (noun)
- misadventure (noun)
- miscalculation (noun)
- miscarriage (noun)
- misconception (noun)
- miscount (noun)
- misestimate (noun)
- misestimation (noun)
- mistake; wrong (noun)
- misunderstanding (noun)
- oversight (noun)
- paradox (noun)
- sin (noun)
- solecism (noun)
- transgression (noun)
- trespass (noun)
- undoing (noun)
- wrong (noun)
- wrongness (noun)
- blunder
- clumsiness
- culpability
- distortion
- fault
- malapropism
- miscalculation
- misprint
- mistake
- noun
- oversight
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
Synonyms for Error:
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- correct .
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- true .
- dumb moves ,
- dumb thing do ,
- flub up ,
- flub ups ,
- flub-ups ,
- flubup ,
- flubups ,
- in accuracies ,
- in accuracy ,
- in-accuracies ,
- in-accuracy ,
- slip ups .
- de fault ,
- de faults ,
- de-fault ,
- de-faults ,
- dis regard ,
- dis regards ,
- dis-regard ,
- dis-regards ,
- in adequacies ,
- in adequacy ,
- in sufficiencies ,
- in sufficiency ,
- in-adequacies ,
- in-adequacy ,
- in-sufficiencies ,
- in-sufficiency ,
- non payment ,
- non payments ,
- non-payments ,
- over looking ,
- over-looking ,
- overlookings .
- dis coloration ,
- dis colorations ,
- dis-coloration ,
- dis-colorations ,
- in juries ,
- in jury ,
- in-jury ,
- marrings ,
- rough spots ,
- un soundness ,
- un soundnesses ,
- un-soundness ,
- un-soundnesses .
- deceptivenesses ,
- eidola ,
- eidolons ,
- fool paradise ,
- fools paradise ,
- self deception ,
- self deceptions ,
- self-deceptions ,
- selfdeception ,
- selfdeceptions .
- alterities ,
- dis parities ,
- dis parity ,
- dis semblance ,
- dis semblances ,
- dis similarities ,
- dis similarity ,
- dis similitude ,
- dis similitudes ,
- dis sonance ,
- dis sonances ,
- dis-parities ,
- dis-parity ,
- dis-semblance ,
- dis-semblances ,
- dis-similarities ,
- dis-similarity ,
- dis-similitude ,
- dis-similitudes ,
- dis-sonance ,
- dis-sonances ,
- far cries ,
- in congruities ,
- in congruity ,
- in consistencies ,
- in consistency ,
- in-congruities ,
- in-congruity ,
- in-consistencies ,
- in-consistency ,
- othernesses ,
- un likeness ,
- un likenesses ,
- un-likeness ,
- un-likenesses .
- faultinesses ,
- in exactness ,
- in exactnesses ,
- in validities ,
- in validity ,
- in-exactness ,
- in-exactnesses ,
- in-validities ,
- in-validity ,
- inexactnesses ,
- misconstruals ,
- non sequiturs ,
- pre conception ,
- pre conceptions ,
- pre-conception ,
- pre-conceptions ,
- quibblings ,
- un truth ,
- un truths ,
- un-truth ,
- un-truths .
- Untruism ,
- cover up ,
- coverup ,
- dissimulation ,
- fakery ,
- fallaciousness ,
- feigning ,
- fibbery ,
- half truth ,
- half truths ,
- hogwash ,
- mis-statement ,
- perjury .
- dis ingenuousness ,
- dis ingenuousnesses ,
- dis-ingenuousness ,
- dis-ingenuousnesses ,
- doubledealing ,
- fraudulences ,
- in fidelities ,
- in fidelity ,
- in sincerities ,
- in sincerity ,
- in-fidelities ,
- in-fidelity ,
- in-sincerities ,
- in-sincerity ,
- mis representation ,
- mis representations ,
- mis-representation ,
- mis-representations ,
- un candidness ,
- un candidnesses ,
- un faithfulness ,
- un faithfulnesses ,
- un realities ,
- un reality ,
- un-candidness ,
- un-candidnesses ,
- un-faithfulness ,
- un-faithfulnesses ,
- un-realities ,
- un-reality ,
- uncandidnesses .
- answerabilities ,
- evil doings ,
- loss innocence ,
- mis conduct ,
- mis conducts ,
- mis deed ,
- mis deeds ,
- mis demeanor ,
- mis demeanors ,
- mis-conduct ,
- mis-conducts ,
- mis-deed ,
- mis-deeds ,
- mis-demeanor ,
- mis-demeanors .
- agnosticisms ,
- dis belief ,
- dis beliefs ,
- dis sent ,
- dis sents ,
- dis-belief ,
- dis-beliefs ,
- dis-sent ,
- dis-sents ,
- hetero doxies ,
- hetero doxy ,
- hetero-doxies ,
- hetero-doxy ,
- iconoclasms ,
- mis belief ,
- mis beliefs ,
- mis-belief ,
- mis-beliefs ,
- misbeliefs ,
- non conformism ,
- non conformisms ,
- non conformities ,
- non conformity ,
- non-conformism ,
- non-conformisms ,
- non-conformities ,
- nonconformisms ,
- paganisms ,
- revisionisms ,
- sectarianisms ,
- secularisms .
- figment imagination ,
- hocus pocus ,
- idolisms ,
- ignus fatuu ,
- makebelieve ,
- mis impression ,
- mis impressions ,
- mis-impression ,
- mis-impressions ,
- misimpressions ,
- paramnesias .
- Misspeak ,
- crudeness ,
- dropping the ball ,
- excitability ,
- fool mistake ,
- hastiness ,
- indiscreetness ,
- ingenuousness ,
- misspeaks ,
- recklessness ,
- simple mindedness ,
- simple-mindedness ,
- simplemindedness ,
- slip of tongue ,
- tactlessness ,
- unseemliness .
- bad breaks ,
- ill fortunes ,
- mis adventure ,
- mis adventures ,
- mis-adventure ,
- mis-adventures ,
- re verse ,
- re-verse .
- mis calculation ,
- mis calculations ,
- mis-calculation ,
- mis-calculations ,
- over estimation ,
- over estimations ,
- over valuation ,
- over valuations ,
- over-estimation ,
- over-estimations ,
- over-valuation ,
- over-valuations ,
- overestimations ,
- under estimation ,
- under estimations ,
- under valuation ,
- under valuations ,
- under-estimation ,
- under-estimations ,
- under-valuation ,
- under-valuations ,
- undervaluations .
- mis carriage ,
- mis carriages ,
- mis fire ,
- mis fires ,
- mis-carriage ,
- mis-carriages ,
- mis-fire ,
- mis-fires ,
- non success ,
- non successes ,
- non-successes ,
- nonsuccesses .
- mis conception ,
- mis conceptions ,
- mis construction ,
- mis constructions ,
- mis-conception ,
- mis-conceptions ,
- mis-construction ,
- mis-constructions ,
- mistaken beliefs .
- in attention ,
- in attentions ,
- in-attention ,
- in-attentions ,
- over look ,
- over looks ,
- over sight ,
- over sights ,
- over-look ,
- over-looks ,
- over-sight ,
- over-sights ,
- preteritions ,
- pretermissions .
- de merit ,
- de merits ,
- de-merit ,
- de-merits ,
- dis obedience ,
- dis obediences ,
- dis-obedience ,
- dis-obediences ,
- evil-doings ,
- un godliness ,
- un godlinesses ,
- un righteousness ,
- un righteousnesses ,
- un-godliness ,
- un-godlinesses ,
- un-righteousness ,
- un-righteousnesses ,
- ungodlinesses ,
- unrighteousnesses ,
- venialities ,
- wrongnesses .
- breaking law ,
- breaking of law ,
- de fiance ,
- de fiances ,
- de-fiance ,
- de-fiances ,
- errings ,
- over stepping ,
- over-stepping ,
- oversteppings .
Other synonyms:
- Freudian Slip ,
- blooper ,
- bungle ,
- cock up ,
- false move ,
- falseness ,
- foul up ,
- goof up ,
- howler ,
- miscue ,
- mishap ,
- mispronunciation ,
- miss ,
- mistaken identity ,
- mistrial ,
- muddle ,
- overestimate ,
- pratfall ,
- snafu ,
- spoonerism .
- bobble ,
- boo-boo ,
- boob ,
- confusion ,
- delusion ,
- disappointment ,
- discrepancy ,
- fall ,
- goof ,
- impiety ,
- indiscretion ,
- invalidity ,
- misstep ,
- mix up ,
- paradox ,
- solecism ,
- underestimate ,
- undoing ,
- veracity .
- trip .
- fuck up .
- fluff .
- trap .
Other relevant words:
- Barmote ,
- Burghmote ,
- Court-baron ,
- Court-leet ,
- Eyre ,
- Foozle ,
- Garbling ,
- Hylotheism ,
- Ignis Fatuus ,
- Irish Bull ,
- Malefaction ,
- Malobservation ,
- Malum ,
- Misbelief ,
- Miscitation ,
- Miscomputation ,
- Misconjecture ,
- Misexplanation ,
- Misexplication ,
- Misexposition ,
- Misintelligence ,
- Misreport ,
- Obtrusion ,
- Peccancy ,
- Phantasm ,
- Preapprehension ,
- Prejudication ,
- Prenotion ,
- Reprobacy ,
- Schismaticalness ,
- Self-contradiction ,
- WRONGFUL ACT ,
- Wardmote ,
- X ,
- aberrant ,
- abomination ,
- abort ,
- absurdity ,
- abuse of terms ,
- admonish ,
- alphabetic data ,
- alphanumeric code ,
- amiss ,
- angular data ,
- antinomianism ,
- apology prompter ,
- apostasy ,
- appeal ,
- appeal motion ,
- artfulness ,
- assembler ,
- assize ,
- assumption ,
- at cross purposes ,
- at fault ,
- atheism ,
- atrocity ,
- awry ,
- backsliding ,
- bad ,
- bad break ,
- bad job ,
- bad move ,
- badly ,
- ballpark bobble ,
- bamboozle ,
- barbarism ,
- baseball miscue ,
- be mistaken ,
- beat ,
- beautiful ,
- besetting sin ,
- beside the mark ,
- betray ,
- binary digit ,
- binary scale ,
- binary system ,
- bit ,
- blemish ,
- bloomer ,
- blot ,
- boggle ,
- bonehead play ,
- boner ,
- botch ,
- botch up ,
- breach ,
- break ,
- breakdown ,
- bug ,
- bull ,
- bust ,
- by accident ,
- by mistake ,
- byte ,
- capital crime ,
- carelessness ,
- castigate ,
- catachresis ,
- certiorari ,
- change ,
- cheat ,
- chiefly ,
- circumvent ,
- clanger ,
- clerical error ,
- clinker ,
- cloven foot ,
- collapse ,
- command ,
- commands ,
- compiler ,
- complicated ,
- computer code ,
- computer error ,
- computer language ,
- computer program ,
- confounding ,
- congruous ,
- contorting ,
- corrigendum ,
- county court ,
- court of appeal ,
- court of record ,
- crack ,
- crime ,
- crime against humanity ,
- criminality ,
- curiously ,
- damage ,
- data ,
- deadly sin ,
- debacle ,
- debt ,
- deceive ,
- deceive oneself ,
- deception ,
- default ,
- deficiency ,
- delictum ,
- delinquency ,
- delude ,
- demerit ,
- dereliction ,
- deviation ,
- differ ,
- different ,
- difficult ,
- disagree ,
- disfigure ,
- disfigurement ,
- disgrace ,
- disobedience ,
- disorderly ,
- disparate ,
- dissimilar ,
- distinct ,
- district court ,
- divergent ,
- drop ,
- eisegesis ,
- enormity ,
- err ,
- errancy ,
- erroneous ,
- erroneous belief ,
- erroneously ,
- erroneousness ,
- errors ,
- escape ,
- especially ,
- evil ,
- evildoing ,
- exceed ,
- exceedingly ,
- exhort ,
- expressly ,
- fable ,
- fade ,
- fail ,
- failing ,
- failure ,
- fall from grace ,
- fallibility ,
- false ,
- false impression ,
- false step ,
- falsely ,
- fancy ,
- faute ,
- faux pas ,
- felony ,
- fiasco ,
- fixed idea ,
- fizzle ,
- flagitiousness ,
- flee ,
- flop ,
- flub ,
- fly ,
- foible ,
- folly ,
- fool's paradise ,
- foregone conclusion ,
- foul ,
- foul-up ,
- fracture ,
- frailty ,
- genocide ,
- geological fault ,
- glitch ,
- gloss ,
- goof-up ,
- hallucination ,
- hang-up ,
- hard ,
- harmonic ,
- harmonious ,
- hash ,
- hearing ,
- heedlessness ,
- heresy ,
- heterodoxy ,
- hexadecimal system ,
- hole ,
- human error ,
- ignorance ,
- illicit ,
- illusion ,
- impairment ,
- imperfection ,
- implosion ,
- imprecise ,
- imprecision ,
- improper ,
- improperly ,
- impropriety ,
- improvidence ,
- imprudence ,
- in error ,
- inaccurate ,
- inadequacy ,
- inadvertence ,
- inapplicable ,
- inappropriate ,
- incongruity ,
- inconsistency ,
- incorrect ,
- incorrectly ,
- indecorum ,
- individually ,
- inexactitude ,
- inexactness ,
- infamy ,
- infertility ,
- infirmity ,
- information ,
- infraction ,
- infringement ,
- iniquity ,
- injudiciousness ,
- injure ,
- injury ,
- injustice ,
- input data ,
- instructions ,
- insufficiency ,
- intricate ,
- irregularity ,
- irreligion ,
- judgment ,
- knavery ,
- knotty ,
- lack ,
- lapse ,
- lapsus ,
- lapsus linguae ,
- laxity ,
- laxness ,
- lead astray ,
- lie ,
- literal ,
- loophole ,
- lose ,
- machine language ,
- maim ,
- make a mistake ,
- malapropism ,
- malfeasance ,
- malpractice ,
- mark ,
- markedly ,
- meltdown ,
- mess ,
- message ,
- minor wrong ,
- misadventure ,
- misapplication ,
- misappreciation ,
- misapprehension ,
- misbehavior ,
- misbehaviour ,
- miscarriage ,
- misconduct ,
- misconstrual ,
- misdeal ,
- misdeed ,
- misdemeanor ,
- misdemeanour ,
- misestimate ,
- misfeasance ,
- misidentification ,
- misjudgement ,
- mislead ,
- mismanagement ,
- misplay ,
- misquotation ,
- misreading ,
- misstatement ,
- mistaken ,
- mistaken belief ,
- mistakenly ,
- mistranslation ,
- misunderstanding ,
- misuse ,
- mortal sin ,
- muff ,
- myth ,
- near miss ,
- neglect ,
- noise ,
- non sequitur ,
- nonfeasance ,
- nonstarter ,
- nosedive ,
- not legal ,
- not right ,
- obliquity ,
- offence ,
- offense ,
- omission ,
- open one's eyes ,
- output ,
- outrage ,
- pantheism ,
- paralogism ,
- particularly ,
- pass ,
- peculiarly ,
- perfidy ,
- petty sessions ,
- play ,
- police court ,
- preconceived idea ,
- preconception ,
- predilection ,
- prejudgment ,
- prejudice ,
- prepossession ,
- presentiment ,
- presumption ,
- pretend ,
- prevention ,
- principally ,
- punish ,
- quarter sessions ,
- rectangular data ,
- recusancy ,
- relapse ,
- reversal ,
- rock ,
- scandal ,
- scar ,
- schism ,
- screamer ,
- separately ,
- sessions ,
- shame ,
- shift ,
- shortcoming ,
- shortfall ,
- signal ,
- signals ,
- sin ,
- sin of omission ,
- skid ,
- slight ,
- slip-up ,
- slipup ,
- smear ,
- sophism ,
- specifically ,
- squeezing ,
- stain ,
- stumble ,
- surpass ,
- tailspin ,
- taint ,
- tort ,
- torturing ,
- transgression ,
- trespass ,
- trial ,
- twisting ,
- typographical error ,
- unfairness ,
- unfit ,
- unjustly ,
- unorthodoxy ,
- unrighteousness ,
- unsuitable ,
- untidy ,
- unusually ,
- unutterable sin ,
- venial sin ,
- verdict ,
- villainy ,
- violation ,
- weak side ,
- weak spot ,
- weakness ,
- wickedness ,
- wipeout ,
- wrenching ,
- wrong ,
- wrongdoing ,
- wrongful conduct ,
- wrongly ,
- wry .
- Alterity ,
- Cacology ,
- Double dealing ,
- Eidolon ,
- Gluttonies ,
- Hocuspocus ,
- Idolism ,
- Illusions ,
- Misjudgment ,
- Non-payment ,
- Peccability ,
- Torts ,
- Veniality ,
- Visions ,
- agnosticism ,
- answerability ,
- blunder ,
- boo boo ,
- boo-boos ,
- booboos ,
- botched situation ,
- breaking of the law ,
- breaking the law ,
- computer malfunction ,
- daintiness ,
- deceptiveness ,
- defect ,
- dumb move ,
- dumb thing to do ,
- dumb trick ,
- elusion ,
- elusions ,
- entrenchment ,
- entrenchments ,
- evil doing ,
- evil-doing ,
- fallacy ,
- falsehood ,
- falsity ,
- far cry ,
- fault ,
- faultiness ,
- figment ,
- figment of imagination ,
- flaw ,
- flub-up ,
- fraudulence ,
- gaff ,
- gaffe ,
- gaffs ,
- gluttony ,
- heterodoxies ,
- howlers ,
- hypocrisy ,
- iconoclasm ,
- ignus fatuus ,
- ill fortune ,
- impingement ,
- incorrect sum ,
- incorrectness ,
- infidelity ,
- invalidities ,
- knot ,
- loss of innocence ,
- miscalculation ,
- misconception ,
- misconstruction ,
- misconstructions ,
- misestimation ,
- misimpression ,
- misreckoning ,
- mixup ,
- non-conformity ,
- non-success ,
- nonconformism ,
- nonsense ,
- nonsuccess ,
- otherness ,
- over turn ,
- overestimation ,
- oversight ,
- overvaluation ,
- overvaluations ,
- paganism ,
- paramnesia ,
- preterition ,
- pretermission ,
- revisionism ,
- rough spot ,
- sectarianism ,
- secularism ,
- seemings ,
- self-deception ,
- slip-ups ,
- something wrong ,
- speciousness ,
- speck ,
- spuriousness ,
- suscept ,
- uncandidness ,
- underestimation ,
- underestimations ,
- undervaluation ,
- ungodliness ,
- unlawful entry ,
- unrealities ,
- unreality ,
- variation ,
- wrongful entry ,
- wrongness .
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How to use "Error" in context?
One of the most common ways in which people communicate is through language. Words have meanings and can be used to communicate ideas. But sometimes, words can have unintended consequences. These consequences can be seen as errors, because they may not have been the intention of the speaker or writer. Whether the error is a simple mistake or something more complicated, it can have a significant impact on the conversation or situation. In this article, we will explore the definition and nature of errors, as well as some examples of how they can be used in communication.
Paraphrases for Error:
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Equivalence
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Noun, plural
mistakes.
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Adverb
errors.
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Verb, past participle
mistaken.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
errors.
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Noun, plural
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
failures.
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Noun, plural
failures.
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Noun, singular or mass
slip-up.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Adjective
flawed, inaccurate, misleading.
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Proper noun, singular
breaches.
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Noun, plural
Biases, occurrences.
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Verb, past participle
Encountered, Occurred.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
erroneous, mistaken, error-free.
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Noun, plural
Inaccuracies, Miscarriages, discrepancies, flaws, embarrassments, mix-ups.
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Noun, singular or mass
aberration, blunder, defect, deficiency, deviation, failing, fallacy, fault, flaw, glitch, impropriety, inaccuracy, irregularity, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, misconception, misdirection, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, mistake, misunderstanding, omission, shortcoming, screw-up.
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Adverb
erroneously, mistakenly, wrongly.
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Adjective
Homophones for Error:
Hyponym for Error:
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detacher
- Synonyms:
- divider, segregator, Detailer, Divorcer, Estranger, Isolator, severer.
