Erroneously

Definition: Erroneously

Erroneously

Adverb

1. In a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it".

Date "erroneously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Erroneously

Synonym: mistakenly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Erroneously

English words defined with "erroneously": Carriage porch, Coral animal, Cundurango ♦ false vampire, false vampire bat ♦ Meconin, Misallege, Mischaracterize, Mischarge, Miscite, Miscolor, Miscompute, Misconstruct, Misderive, Misestimate, Misexpound, Misground, Misinterpreter, Misorder, Misrate, Misrecite, Misrecollect, Misreport, Misrepute, Mistakingly, Misteach, Mistell, Mygale ♦ order Raptores ♦ pseudoscientific ♦ Raptores ♦ Spanish mackerel ♦ To reckon without one's host. (references)

Specialty definitions using "erroneously": Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation ♦ coal testing, computer ethics, Cross ♦ diacetate fibre ♦ Final Housing Unit Matching, Flee, Fly ♦ geomagnetic latitude ♦ Kiss given to a Poet ♦ meerschaum ♦ optical line of sight ♦ Percolation Rate, Person Matching ♦ Quotation ♦ records-section supervisor, Rose Sunday ♦ Sedan Chairs, shunned character, shunned character number, Siam ruby, SUPERVISOR, FILES ♦ VWP. (references)

Etymologies containing "erroneously": Attainder, Author ♦ Epicure ♦ Faker, fondue ♦ Mamgabey ♦ Servo-motor. (references)

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Photo Album: Erroneously

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	Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Soryu, Akagi and Kaga in the morning of 4 June 1942. The diorama was created during World War II on the basis of information then available. It is therefore somewhat inaccurate in scope and detail. This angle of view is essentially the reciprocal of that shown in Photo # 80-G-701869. It depicts Soryu (attacked by Yorktown aircraft) in the center foreground, with Kaga and Akagi (both attacked by Enterprise aircraft) as the two most distant burning ships. The burning ship at far right is a light cruiser, which had been erroneously reported to have been hit.Credit: NAVY.		Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Unidentified man, arrested on suspicion of being a conspirator (has been erroneously taken for Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who had a bald forehead; but is probably Hartman Richter, Atzerodt's cousin, arrested with him but later release.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Erroneously

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Venezuela	Chavez characterized this supposed campaign as "premeditated" and "psychological terrorism." He particularly criticized a September 29 broadcast by Globovisi�n that included an interview with a taxi driver who erroneously stated that nine taxi drivers had been murdered the previous night. (references)
Human Rights	Dominican Republic	In addition, some victims are involved in private disputes with police agents, while other victims later were found to be honest citizens erroneously caught up in the wave of antigang violence carried out by the police. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Erroneously

"Erroneously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erroneously" is used about 89 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
Adverb (general)	100%	89	34,931

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Erroneously

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
erroneously	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Erroneously

Language		Translations for "erroneously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gabimisht (by error, by mistake, crosswise, incorrectly, mistakenly, wrongly). (various references)

Bulgarian		грешно. (various references)

Chinese		�"�误地 (mistakenly, Wrongly). (various references)

Czech		omylem (by mistake, mistakenly), mylnì (falsely, mistakenly), chybnì (Amiss, inaccurately). (various references)

Finnish		väärin (amiss, incorrectly, mis, negative, the wrong way, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

German		irrtümliche (erroneous), irrig (erroneous, fallacious, false, incorrect, incorrectly, misguided, mistaken, wrong). (various references)

Greek		λανθασμένα (wrongfully, wrongly). (various references)

Hungarian		tévesen (incorrectly, mistakenly, off the beam, wrongly), hibásan (impoliticly, wrong). (various references)

Korean		잘못되 (Faultily, mistakenly). (various references)

Pig Latin		erroneouslyay

Romanian		eronat (erroneous, mistaken, wrong), greşit (abroad, Amiss, astray, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unjust, unlawful, vicious, wrong, wrongheaded), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references)

Russian		ошибочно (badly, falsely, in error, mistakenly, wrongheadedly). (various references)

Scottish		dithis (a pair, two persons; often erroneously applied). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pogrešno (amiss, mis-, mistakenly, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Turkish		yanlışlıkla (by an oversight, by mistake, inadvertently, incorrectly, mistakenly, through an oversight). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Erroneously

Misspellings
	"Erroneously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erroneusly, erronously. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Erroneously"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "erroneously" (pronounced erō"nēuslē)
7	-ō" n ē u s l ē	harmoniously, unceremoniously.
6	-n ē u s l ē	contemporaneously, instantaneously, simultaneously, spontaneously.
5	-ē u s l ē	curiously, enviously, furiously, gloriously, hideously, hilariously, laboriously, mysteriously, notoriously, obviously, precariously, previously, seriously, studiously, tediously, variously, vicariously.
4	-u s l ē	aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, generously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, hellaciously, helplessly, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, nervously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precipitously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, strenuously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unconsciously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously.
3	-s l ē	adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Erroneously

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-u-y"
	-2 letters: erroneous, onerously.
	-3 letters: loosener.
	-4 letters: elusory, ensurer, erosely, looneys, nursery, onerous, unloose, unreels.
	-5 letters: enrols, ensoul, ensure, enures, leones, loners, looeys, looney, loosen, looser, lurers, nerols, nooser, nurser, ornery, rerose, reruns, resole, rooser, rosery, rouens, rouser, rulers, senryu, slurry, snorer, sooner, sorely, sorner, sorrel, sourer, sourly, surely, surrey, unreel.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-u-y"
	+3 letters: overgenerously.
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