Err

Definition: Err

Err

Verb

1. To make a mistake or be incorrect.

2. Wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course".

Date "err" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	To make a mistake. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ERR	English	Economic rate of return	N/A
ERR	Greek	σφάλμα	Post & Telecom
Err.,ERR	English	Error	N/A
Err.	French	Erreur	N/A
Err.	Latin	Erratum	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Err

Synonyms: drift (v), mistake (v), slip (v), stray (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Error	Phrase: errare est humanum; mentis gratissimus error; "on the dubious waves of error tost"; "to err is human, to forgive divine"; "you lie
	Err; be -in error; Adjective:, be mistaken; Verb: be deceived; (duped); mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error; Noun: be in the wrong, blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate; (misjudge).
Vice	Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Err

English words defined with "err": errancy, Erred ♦ Lability ♦ Miscorrect, Misplead, Misspeak ♦ Papal infallibility ♦ To go aside, To split on a rock. (references)

Specialty definitions using "err": But that, But what ♦ INFERIAE. (references)

Etymologies containing "err": inerrable. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Piccolo, err Kami, that is um (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) You're just trying to show off the size of your, err (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) Err I mean, uh the person in the boots (SpongeBob SquarePants; writing credit: Leonardo Fasoli; Patrizia Fassio) Hello, Carl, I am Inignot and this is Err. (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis) Err, Sheffield (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson)
Clever	To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human. (references; author: unknown)
Tongue Twisters	Ere her ear hears her err, here ears err here. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Err . . . Excuse Me!: Mind Leaving Your Bad Mood Outside? (reference) To Err Is Human (reference) To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (reference) Wittgenstein: Why Philosophy Is Bound to Err (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Confucius	The cautious seldom err.
Euripides	Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
George Washington	To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller	Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
John Dryden	For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
John Milton	Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
John Wilmot	Reason, which fifty times to one does err, reason, an ignis fatuus of the mind.
Plutarch	For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Salus populi suprema lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Err, falter, sin, but be upright
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the Dii Manes, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow -- wow.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Andrew Weil	Well, you know, if you've got hormone receptor positive breast cancer, I would say to err on the side of caution, I would not eat soy. I think that we don't know enough, but I would be cautious there.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Err" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Err" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	57.14%	68	40,606
Lexical Verb (base form)	35.29%	42	52,864
Unclassified Items	7.56%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	119	N/A

Expressions using "err": make err ♦ um and err. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "err"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gaboj (betray, cheat, deceive, delude, disappoint, fraud, lapse, let down, make a mistake, mistake, seduce, swindle). (various references)

Arabic		‏زل (nod, slight), ‏ضل (astray, lead astray, maunder, mislead, pervert, petering, seduce, stray), ‏أخطأ (fluff, fumble, go wrong, goof, make a mistake, misfire, miss, mistake, sin, slip, stumble, trip up), ‏أثم (misdemeanor, misdemeanour, sin, sinful, sinful person, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Bulgarian		съгрешавам (fall, sin), греша (be wrong, make a mistake, misstep, mistake, sin, wander), заблуждавам се (go astray, stray, wander), блуждая (range, roam, rove, wander, wilder). (various references)

Chinese		蹉 (error, miss, slip), 犯�"� (Erred, Erring). (various references)

Czech		chybovat (make mistakes). (various references)

Danish		tage fejl (make a mistake). (various references)

Dutch		een fout maken (make a mistake), dwalen (aberrate, go astray, make a mistake, roam, stray off, wander). (various references)

Esperanto		erari (make a mistake). (various references)

Farsi		گمراه شدن (Pervert, Stray), غلطبودن , خطاکردن (Bunlge, Goof, Miss, Overshoot, Sin), دراشتباه بودن , بغلطقضاوت کردن . (various references)

Finnish		erehtyä (be mistaken, be wrong, make a mistake), eksyä (get lost, go astray, lose one's way), hairahtua (be misled, commit an error). (various references)

French		se tromper. (various references)

Frisian		fersinne jin (make a mistake). (various references)

German		sich irren (be mistaken, be wrong, make a mistake, mistake, to be mistaken). (various references)

Greek		σφάλλω (lapse, mistake, slip), πλανώμαι (straggle). (various references)

Hawaiian		gaboj (make a mistake). (various references)

Hebrew		לש�'ות (lapse, mistake, slip up), לטעות (go wrong, make a mistake, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references)

Hungarian		vétkezik (sin, to commit a fault, to err, to offend, to sin, to trespass), téved (miscalculate, mistake, mistaken, mistook, to be in the wrong, to be wrong, to fault, to go wrong, to miscalculate, to miss the cushion, to mistake, to trip), csalódik (to be disappointed). (various references)

Indonesian		berbuat salah. (various references)

Italian		errare (be mistaken, lapse, make, make a mistake, make mistakes, mistake, roam, rove, wander). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		過つ (to err). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まちがえる (to err, to make a mistake), あやまつ (to err). (various references)

Korean		잘못하십시�". (various references)

Manx		jannoo marranys (slip up), goll er shaghryn (abberate, blunder, blunder make mistake, blundering, divagate, stray, straying). (various references)

Norwegian		feile (lapse). (various references)

Papiamen		kibuká (make a mistake), kiboká (make a mistake). (various references)

Pig Latin		erray.(various references)

Polish		mylić się (make a mistake), błądzieć (make a mistake). (various references)

Portuguese		errar (boggle, lapse, make a mistake, miss, roam, straggle, trip, vagabondize, wander), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile), desviar (avert, deflect, depart, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, divert, fend, foil, head off, parry, shunt, swerve, ward off). (various references)

Romanian		greşi (be in error, be mistaken, do wrong to smb., fail, make a mistake, Miss, mistake, nod, overshoot, sin, slip, stand in error, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Russian		грешить (do wrong, fall from grace, sin, sinned, sinning, transgress), ошибаться (act amiss, be in error, deal amiss, do amiss, make a mistake, mistake), заблуждаться (be in error, be mistaken, do wrong, misbelieve, mistake). (various references)

Scottish		tuislich (fall, slip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pogrešiti (be mistaken, blunder, go wrong, make a mistake, mis-step, slip up). (various references)

Spanish		equivocarse (bark up the wrong tree, be on the wrong tack, deceive, deceive oneself, go wrong, lapse, make a mistake, misbelieve, misdo, mistake, slip up, trip, trip up), errar (be mistaken, fluff, Miss, miss with, mistake, muff, roam about, stray, wander). (various references)

Swedish		fela (be wanting, do wrong, fail, fiddle, make a mistake), missta sig (be mistaken, make a mistake). (various references)

Thai		ทำผิ�". (various references)

Turkish		yanlış olmak (be wrong), yanılmak (be mistaken, be off, be wrong, come unstuck, get the wrong sow by the ear, make a mistake, misapprehend, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, stumble in, stumble into), hata yapmak (do wrong, go astray, goof, lapse, make mistake, nod, slip, slip up, stumble, stumble in, stumble into, trip), günah işlemek (commit sin, sin, stumble, transgress, trespass), aldanmak (fall for, make a mistake). (various references)

Ukrainian		грішити (sin), помилятися (act amiss, be wrong, do wrong, fault, misbelieve, misdeem, mistake, wander). (various references)

Welsh		cyfeiliorni (stray), camgymryd (mistake), amryfuso (blunder). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	defui, desum, desum, defui, deesse, errabat, errabit, errando, errans, errant, errantem, errantes, erranti, errantia, errare, errarent, erraretis, errasse, errat, erratis, errato, erraverit, erraverunt, erravi, erravimus, errent, erret, erro, error, labaris, labatur, labor, oberraveris, oberraverit, oberrem, palor, pecco. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 12, Verse 27
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ouk estin o qeoV nekrwn alla qeoV zwntwn umeiV oun polu planasqe
Latin	405	Vulgate	Non est Deus mortuorum sed vivorum vos ergo multum erratis
Old English	990	West Saxon	Nis god deadre. ac he is libbendrasoðlice swiðe ge dwelieð.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	He is not God of deed men, but of lyuynge men; therfor ye erren myche.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	He is not the God of the deed but the God of the livynge. Ye are therfore greatly deceaved.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 12, Verse 27
Cebuano	Siya Dios dili sa mga patay, kondili sa mga buhi. Nangasayop gayud kamo."
Croatian	Nije on Bog mrtvih, nego živih. Uvelike se varate."
Danish	Han er ikke dødes, men levendes Gud; I fare meget vild."
Dutch	God is niet een God der doden, maar een God der levenden. Gij dwaalt dan zeer.
Finnish	Ei hän ole kuolleitten Jumala, vaan elävien. Suuresti te eksytte."
French	Dieu n`est pas Dieu des morts, mais des vivants. Vous êtes grandement dans l`erreur.
Gaelic	Cha Dia nam marbh e, ach nam beo. Tha sibhse uime sin a dol fada cearr.
German	Gott aber ist nicht der Toten, sondern der Lebendigen Gott. Darum irrt ihr sehr.
Haitian Creole	Bondye se Bondye moun vivan li ye, li pa Bondye moun mouri. Nou wè nou nan lerè anpil, pa vre?
Hungarian	Az Isten nem holtaknak, hanem élõknek Istene. Ti tehát igen tévelyegtek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Allah itu bukan Allah orang mati. Ia Allah orang hidup. Kalian keliru sekali!"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka Allah itu bukannya Tuhan orang mati, melainkan Tuhan orang hidup; maka amatlah sangatnya sesat kamu."
Italian	Non è un Dio dei morti ma dei viventi! Voi siete in grande errore».
Maori	Ehara ia i te Atua no te hunga mate, engari he Atua no te hunga ora: na nui atu to koutou he.
Norwegian	Gud er ikke de dødes Gud, men de levendes. I farer storlig vill.
Portuguese	Ora, ele não é Deus de mortos, mas de vivos. Estais em grande erro.
Rumanian	Dumnezeu nu este un Dumnezeu al celor moryi, ci al celor vii. Tare vq mai rqtqciyi!``
Shuar	Yaunchu Jákaru ain, Yus nuna taku, ayashnium jakayat iwiaaku pujuinia nuna Yusrintjai, tawai. Nekas jaka ainia nuna Yusrinchuiti. Nantaktin atsawai tau asarum awajirurme" Tímiayi Jesus.
Spanish	Dios no es Dios de muertos, sino de vivos. Vosotros erráis mucho.
Swahili	Basi, yeye si Mungu wa wafu, bali ni Mungu wa walio hai. Ninyi mmekosea sana!"
Swedish	Han är en Gud icke för döda, utan för levande. I faren mycket vilse."
Uma	Jadi', ngkai lolita-na Alata'ala toe, monoto-mi ta'inca katuwu' -ra moto Abraham, Ishak pai' Yakub. Apa' bela tauna to mate to mepue' hi Alata'ala, tauna to tuwu' -hana to mpopue' -i. Sala' rahi-koina pekiri-ni tetu-e."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "err": errancies, errancy, errand, errands, errant, errantly, errantries, errantry, errants, errata, erratas, erratic, erratical, erratically, erraticism, erraticisms, erratics, erratum, erred, errhine, errhines, erring, erringly, erroneous, erroneously, erroneousness, erroneousnesses, error, errorless, errors, errs. (additional references)
	Words containing "err": aberrance, aberrances, aberrancies, aberrancy, aberrant, aberrantly, aberrants, aberrated, aberration, aberrational, aberrations, antiferromagnet, antiferromagnetic, antiferromagnetically, antiferromagnetism, antiferromagnetisms, antiferromagnets, antiguerrilla, antiguerrillas, antiterrorism, antiterrorisms, antiterrorist, antiterrorists, averred, averring, baneberries, baneberry, barberries, barberry, bayberries, bayberry, bearberries, bearberry, berretta, berrettas, berried, berries, berry, berrying, berrylike, bilberries, bilberry, bitterroot, bitterroots, blackberries, blackberry, blaeberries, blaeberry, blueberries, blueberry, boxberries. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Err" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arr, arrh, Arrr, Arur, brr, cerr, earr, ecr, edr, Egr, ehr, eir, Emrh, enr, eor, epr, erar, Erb, erd, erer, erh, eri, erj, erk, erl, erm, eror, erp, erq, erra, errd, erre, Errgh, Errh, erri, errm, errmm, Erro, Errr, Errrr, errt, erru, erry, ert, eru, erv, erw, erx, Erz, etr, eur, evr, Evrard, exr, exrnr, gerr, Ieruru, irir, irr, irru, jerr, kerr, lerr, merr, nerr, prr, rer, rerr, rr, trr, urr, verr, werr, wrr, yerr. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "err" (pronounced e"r or er")
2	e" r	affair, air, aware, bare, bear, beware, billionaire, blare, care, chair, compare, concessionaire, dare, debonair, declare, despair, disrepair, doctrinaire, ensnare, Eyre, fair, fare, fer, flair, flare, forswear, glare, hair, hare, heir, impair, lair, Lehr, Mair, mare, midair, millionaire, multimillionaire, pair, pare, pear, prayer, prepare, questionnaire, rare, repair, scare, share, snare, solitaire, spare, Square, stair, stare, swear, tear, their, there, unaware, unfair, ware, wear, where.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-r-r"
	-1 letter: er, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-r-r"
	+1 letter: errs, rare, rear, ruer.
	+2 letters: airer, armer, barer, barre, berry, borer, brier, carer, corer, crier, crore, curer, darer, derry, direr, drear, drier, dryer, erred, error, eyrir, farer, ferry, firer, freer, frere, frier, frore, fryer, herry, hirer, jerry, kerry, lurer, merer, merry, murre, order, ormer, parer, perry, prier, pryer, purer, racer, raker, raper, rared, rarer, rares, raser, rater, raver, rawer, razer, rearm, rears, rebar, recur, redry, refer, refry, repro, reran, rerig, rerun, retro, retry, ricer, rider, rifer, rimer, riper, riser, river, roger, roper, rover, rower, ruder, ruers, ruler, serer, serry, sorer, surer, tarre, terra, terry, trier, truer, urare, urger, wirer, wrier, wryer, yarer.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
to err is human	30
err	17
around conservative err in office side	7
divine err forgive human	7
cd err player	4
1 err hex hp printer	4
badwindowsversion err isdx	3
530 code err main nt	3
diesel err freelander pump	3
1 err hex	3
err hs pid	2
building err health human safer system	2
caution err side	2
err failed reason scsi tran transport	2
devine err forgive human	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Err

Definition: Err

Err

Verb

Specialty Definition: Err

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Err

ERR

ERR

Synonyms: Err

Synonyms within Context: Err

Error

Vice

Crosswords: Err

Modern Usage: Err

Screenplays

Clever

Tongue Twisters

Commercial Usage: Err

Books

Familiar Quotations: Err

Confucius

Euripides

George Washington

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

John Dryden

John Milton

John Wilmot

Plutarch

Historic Usage: Err

John Locke

Use in Literature: Err

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Err

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Err

Andrew Weil

Usage Frequency: Err

Expressions: Err

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Err

Modern Translation: Err

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