Error

Definition: Error

Error

Noun

1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults".

2. Inadvertent incorrectness.

3. A misconception resulting from incorrect information.

4. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed.

5. Departure from what is ethically acceptable.

6. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer.

7. Part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "error" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Error \Er"ror\, noun. [Old French expression error, errur, French erreur, from Latin expression error, from errare to err. See Err.]. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Mathematics

Meteorology & Standards

Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Error

Error

Phrase: errare est humanum; mentis gratissimus error; "on the dubious waves of error tost"; "to err is human, to forgive divine"; "you lie

Noun: error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness; Adjective: laxity; misconstruction; (misinterpretation); miscomputation; (misjudgment); non sequitur; mis-statement, mis-report; mumpsimus.

Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography.

In error, under an error; Noun: mistaken; Verb: tripping; Verb: out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray; (at fault); on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out.

Illusion, delusion; snare; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit, self-deception; mists of error.

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).

Cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform; (misteach); delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie.

Guilt

Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum.

Heterodoxy

Noun: heterodoxy; error; false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism, schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism; (irreligion).

Information

Show one one's error; point out an error, point out a fallacy; pick out an error, pick out the fallacy; open one's eyes.

Lawsuit

Hearing, trial; verdict; (judgment); appeal, appeal motion; writ of error; certiorari.

Misjudgment

Prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_e fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise.

Ignorance. erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error).

Tribunal

Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.

Vice

Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.

Crosswords: Error

Catalan (aberration, error, mistake), Latin (aberration, deception, err, error, go astray, going astray, make a mistake, maze, mistake, uncertainty, uncertainty / deception, vacillate, wander, wandering, winding), Spanish (aberrancy, aberration, bug, error, fallacy, fault, foozle, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, misdeed, misdoing, Miss, mistake, misunderstanding, wrong).

Mmmm aah. bad grammar overload! Error! Error (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Here we go. There was an error at the hospital, you died at birth, your turn (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet)

Sometimes even the wisest of man or machine can make an error. (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth)

Tell me it was a clerical error. (A Day in Summer; writing credit: J.L. Carr; Alan Plater)

Human error won't stop him. He's had years to hide, to plot this damnable thing (The Abominable Dr. Phibes; writing credit: James Whiton; William Goldstein)

Going and coming without error. (Chapter 24; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

An old error is always more popular than a new truth. (references; author: German Proverb)

An error doesn't become a mistake until you choose to ignore it. (references; author: unknown)

Un Error judicial (1974)

If This Be Error (1952)

Margin for Error (1943)

Paid in Error (1938)

Error de juventud (1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements (reference)

• Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences (reference)

• Design Paradigms : Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering (reference)

• Error Patterns in Computation: Using Error Patterns to Improve Instruction (8th Edition) (reference)

• Human Error (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Error Trends Coin Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fatal Error (reference)

• Trial & Error (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 2000 Years of Human Error (reference)

• Error of Judgement (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Universal Smart Error Reporting Untility for Hard Drives (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

C. M. Durgin and P. C. Doran inspecting record book Looking for source of error in computations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Davidson Seamount named for George Davidson of the C&GS This feature was the first called a "seamount" Officially named by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names Discovered by GUIDE in 1933 Error - latitude should range from 35 to 36. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Recorder attempting to find error in readings International Boundary Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Checking index error of sextants prior to conducting launch hydrography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Station Cook - tower had to be built after error by reconnaissance man Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sounding technique used by Sir James Clark Ross in obtaining first modern deep sea sounding on January 3, 1840 at Latitude 27 26 S and Longitude 17 29 W. The observed depth was 2,425 fathoms. On January 22, 1968, the ESSA Ship DISCOVERER sounded at the same location with a modern echo-sounder and measured 2312 fathoms, less than a 5 per cent error for Ross's observation. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 45. Jacobsen and Paulsen apparatus for the measurement of plankton in a water sample. Devised by Jacob Peter Jacobsen of the Danish Hydrographic Laboratory and Doctor Ove Paulsen, of the Botanical Museum of the University of Copenhagen, in 1910. This instrument was easier to use and less subject to "operator" error than the preceding model. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 31. Flat model surface thermometer. Although this thermometer is named "Richard thermometer" in the museum collections, this is probably an error. The accompanying certificate identifies it as being made by Fritz Kohler of the Ostwald Institute in 1910. It was probably meant to measure the temperature of water acquired with a surface sampling bucket. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Halftone photograph of the tug Fern assisting a "city" class armored gunboat, on the Western Rivers during the Civil War. The original image caption's identification of the ironclad as USS Benton is in error. Credit: NAVY.

Monitors a radio range chart, while serving as a Link Trainer Instructor at Naval Air Station, St. Louis, Missouri, 3 November 1943. She follows the Link trainer's "flight path", and, if the pilot becomes "lost", points out his error. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So far from having long understood you, I have been in a most complete error with respect to your views, till this moment

The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other, because neither of them was currently a particularly engaging sight, and nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul

She determined to redeem her error, so far as it might yet be possible

They fell into the tremendous error of mistaking the obedience of the soldier for the acquiescence of the nation

It is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Damasio AR. Descartes' error. (references)

Several large pilot studies have demonstrated low error rates. (references)

Sickle cell anemia is caused by an error in the gene that tells the body how to make hemoglobin. (references)

Business

The RVS allows telephone companies to automatically update their databases, which are often up to 25 percent in error. (references)

However, practical tests of the satellite system indicated a disappointing 95 percent accuracy, unacceptable since this would lead to 7,500 motorists billed in error each day on London's orbital M25 Motorway alone. (references)

Equipment incorporating certain technological features that aid operators in reducing costly human error, i.e. diagnostic systems to monitor the mechanical condition of machines and can thus accelerate repair and maintenance to achieve overall cost efficiency have good potential. (references)

Civil Liberties

Jordan

Some observers believed that the procedural error was used as a pretext to continue harassing the poet. (references)

Jordan

According to June press reports, the Shari'a appeals court ordered Muslim poet Musa Hawamdeh retried on an apostasy charge due to a procedural error in his original trial. (references)

Ukraine

Human rights groups reported cases of persons being stripped of their residence registration, evicted from their homes, and made homeless through criminal fraud or court error. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

Statistical data on Somalia are thus especially subject to dispute and error. (references)

Norway

This shall not apply if the other party can prove that such failure is not due to error or negligence on his or her part. (references)

Australia

The Copyright Amendment (Computer Programs) Act of 1999 allows for the copying of computer programs under certain circumstances, for the purposes of interoperability, error correction, and security testing. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

He was detained for 3 hours before being released and told his arrest had been an error. (references)

Honduras

The defense argued successfully that a DNA test that positively identified the body as Madisson's was not admissible as evidence, because there was a 1 percent probability of error. (references)

El Salvador

The Constitution provides for the presumption of innocence, protection from self-incrimination, legal counsel, freedom from coercion, and compensation for damages due to judicial error. (references)

Minorities

Cyprus

Military officials indicated that the action was an error and promised to rebuild the house; however, it had not yet been rebuilt by year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

Despite ILO findings in favor of the workers, the Ministry of Labor had not recognized the federation by year's end, and the Supreme Court had not decided on the complaint submitted by the workers in 2000. In February the Ministry of Labor determined that the telecommunications union, SUTTEL, had committed a technical error in forming its board of directors in 2000. However, it upheld the union's official status and the union leaders' legal protections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "error": a capital error ♦ A clerical error ♦ a deeply seated error ♦ acceleration error ♦ acceptance error ♦ accidental error ♦ algorithm error ♦ alignment error ♦ application error and acknowledgement message ♦ application error code ♦ application error detail ♦ application error identification ♦ application error information ♦ automatic error correction ♦ Azimuthal error ♦ babbling error ♦ backlash error ♦ be in error ♦ be led into error ♦ beta error ♦ bit error performance ♦ bit error rate ♦ bit error rate test ♦ bit error rate tester ♦ bus error ♦ by error ♦ by trial and error ♦ capital error ♦ cardinal error ♦ cell error ratio ♦ chronometer error ♦ circular error probable ♦ clerical error ♦ commit an error ♦ compiling error ♦ compound misfortune with error ♦ computer error ♦ concentricity error ♦ conscious error ♦ correctable error ♦ correction of error ♦ delivery error ♦ detected error ♦ disk error ♦ dispersion error ♦ distant site error ♦ drift error ♦ equal error protection ♦ error 33 ♦ error budgeting ♦ error burst ♦ error concealment ♦ error control device ♦ error correcting memory ♦ error correction code ♦ error detection ♦ error detection and correction ♦ error detection and handling ♦ error detection code ♦ error detection coding ♦ error diagnostics ♦ error field ♦ error guessing ♦ error in form ♦ error judgement ♦ error message ♦ Error of collimation ♦ error of first kind ♦ error of the first kind ♦ Error of the mean square ♦ error of the second kind ♦ error of the third kind ♦ error rate ♦ error scatter ♦ error seeding ♦ factual error ♦ fall into error ♦ fatal error ♦ fencepost error ♦ fiducial error ♦ flight technical error ♦ forward Error Correction ♦ fundamental error ♦ grammatical error ♦ gross error ♦ hard error ♦ hardware error ♦ header error control ♦ Heeling error ♦ horizontal error ♦ human error ♦ human error probability ♦ human error rate ♦ hysteresis error ♦ ID10T error ♦ in error ♦ inborn error of metabolism ♦ incorrect assumptions error ♦ Index error ♦ indicated displacement error ♦ indicated slant course directional error. Additional references.

Beginning with "error": error-bars, error-based testing, error-checking, error-correcting, error-correction, error-detecting, error-filled, error-free, error-handling, error-likely, error-looked, error-prone, error-ridden, error-strewn, error-trap, error-trapped.

Ending with "error": trial-and-error.

Containing "error": relatively-error-free.

Afrikaans

fout (aberration, mistake), abuis (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Albanian

veprim i gabuar, mungesë saktësie (inaccuracy), mendje e gabuar, mëkat (crime, evil, frailty, peccancy, pity, sin, transgression, trespass), lajthitje (aberration, craze, miscount, Miss, mistake, oversight), gambim (aberration, mistake), gabim (balk, baulk, boob, delinquency, delusion, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, slip up, trip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غلطة (balk, fault, inaccuracy, mistake, stumble, trip), ‏سقطة, ‏زلة (cringing, fault, faux pas, frailty, lapse, peccadillo, stumble), ‏ضلال (aberrance, deception, delusion, obscurity, perversity, wandering, wrong), ‏خطأ (balk, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, misconception, miss, mistake, stumble), ‏إثم (debt, delinquency, evil, guilt, guiltiness, iniquity, misdeed, offence, sin, transgression, viciousness, wrongdoing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдебна грешка (miscarriage of justice), грях (evil, frailty, guilt, iniquity, peccancy, sin, transgression, trespass, wrongdoing), грешка (blooper, blunder, boss, break, defect, demerit, dereliction, fault, inaccuracy, inexactitude, lapse, misdoing, misstep, mistake, muff, slip up, slipping, snafu), отклонение от компаса, заблуждение (errancy, misguidance, mistake), прегрешение (lapse, peccancy, sin, stumble, trespass), погрешка. (various references)

Catalan

error (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Chinese 

錯誤 (mistake, mistaken), 錯 (blunder, cross, fault, mistake, uneven, wrong), 誤 (mistake, to delay, to harm, to miss, to neglect), 蹉 (err, miss, slip), 謬誤 (falsehood, mistaken idea), 错误 (Corrigenda, Corrigendum, Erroneous, wrong), 訛 (exhort, false), 眚 (cataract of the eye, having poor eyesight, lion), 紕 (carelessness, spoiled silk), 故障 (breakdown, fault, glitch, snag), 差 (a messenger, a mission, difference, different, discrepancy, poor, send, short of, to commission, to differ, to err, to lack, to make a mistake, uneven). (various references)

Czech

omyl (fallibility, faux pas, lapse, Lapsus, oversight), chyba (defect, errata, failing, fault, inadequacy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references)

Danish

fejl (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Dutch

fout (aberration, erroneous, incorrect, mistake, mistaken, wrong), vergissing (aberration, mistake), dwaling (aberration, mistake), abuis (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Esperanto

eraro (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Faeroese

mistak (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Farsi 

لغزش (Gaffe, Lapse, Peccadillo, Slide, Slip, Slippage, Slither, Trip), غلط (Amiss, Awry, Erroneous, False, Foul, Inaccuracy, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Phony, Unsound), تقصیر (Crime, Delinquency, Guilt, Offense, Rap), سهو (Blunder, Goof, Inadvertent, Miscue, Oversight, Slip, Wrong), عقیده نادرست , خطا (Injustice, Lapse, Miscue, Sin, Sinister, Slip, Transgression, Wrong), اشتباه (Blame, Erroneous, Fumble, Gaingiving, Goof, Inaccuracy, Mistake, Slip, Snafu, Wrong). (various references)

Finnish

virhe (aberration, blunder, fault, mistake, slip), erehdys (mistake, oversight, slip). (various references)

French

erreur (err.), faute. (various references)

Frisian

flater (aberration, mistake), fersin (aberration, mistake). (various references)

German

irrtum (aberrant, aberration, fallacy, falsity, mistake, pitfall), fehler (aberration, absence, blemish, bug, defect, deficiency, demerits, failing, fault, flaw, flaws, lack, lapse, misstep, mistake, mistakes, nonconformance, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise), versehen (aberration, accommodate, discharge, equip, fit, hold, inadvertence, look after, mistake, occupy, omit, overlook, oversight, perform, provide, provided, see to, stock, supply, take care of). (various references)

Greek 

σφάλμα (bloomer, fault, mistake, slip). (various references)

Hawaiian

gambim (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוגה (fault, mistake), משגה (blunder, false step, fault, mistake, oversight, slip up), של (fault, offence), שגיאה (blunder, mistake), שגיגה (blunder, mistake), שגגה (ignorance), שבוש (blunder, breakdown, confusion, dislocation, disorder, disruption, fault), טעות (fault, mistake, oversight, slip up, wrong), סותה. (various references)

Hungarian

hiba (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blooper, blue, bobble, clinker, default, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, flub-up, glitch, inaccuracy, lapse, malformation, mischief, mistake, shortcoming, trouble, wrong), tévedés (blue, bobble, deception, delusion, failure, fallacy, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, misprision, miss, mistake, oversight, wrong), erkölcsi botlás, eltévelyedés (aberration). (various references)

Icelandic

mistök (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Indonesian

silap (flase, mistaken, wrong), kesilapan (mistake), kesalahan (flaw, gaffe, guilt, mistake, trespass), kekeliruan (mistake), gawal (mistakel). (various references)

Italian

errore (aberrant, aberration, bug, fallacy, falsity, fault, lapse, mistake, oversight, slip), sbaglio (aberration, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過失 (accident, blunder), 過ち　 (fault, indiscretion), 過ち (fault, indiscretion), 誤差 , 誤り , 落度 (fault, guilt), 落ち度 (mistake), 越度 , 損じ (failure, slip), 後逸 (lettingpass, missing), 失錯 (blunder, slip), 失策 (blunder, slip), 失態 (discredit, disgrace, failure, fault, mismanagement), 失体 (discredit, disgrace, failure, fault, mismanagement), エマルジョン塗料 (ejaculation, emerald, emerald green, emery board, EMIfilter, emigrant, emigration, eminent, emollient, emotion, emotionalism, emulate, emulation, emulator, emulsion, emulsion paint, error message, error-signal, M size, medium size). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おちど (fault, guilt, mistake), しったい (discredit, disgrace, failure, fault, measure against unemployment, mismanagement), しっさく (blunder, slip), そんじ (failure, slip), かしつ (accident, blunder, humidification, varnish), ごさ, こういつ (lettingpass, missing), あやまり (apology, excuse, mistake), あやまち (fault, indiscretion), エラー . (various references)

Korean 

과실. (various references)

Malay

salah (aberration, mistake), kesalahan (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Manx

sponnag (trick), shaghrynys (abberation, absence, bewilderment, blunder, confusion, deviation, deviousness, gaffe, hallucination, maze, mental alienation, quibble, truancy), neuchiartys (inaccuracy, partiality, unevenness), marranys (miscalculation, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight, slip up). (various references)

Norwegian

mistak (aberration, mistake), feil (aberration, defect, fault, flaw, lapse, mistake). (various references)

Papiamen

eror (aberration, mistake), kibukashon (aberration, mistake), kibokashon (aberration, mistake), fout (aberration, mistake), fayo (aberration, damage, mistake). (various references)

Pig Latin

erroray.(various references)

Polish

pomyłka (aberration, mistake), błąd (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Portuguese

erro (aberration, balk, boner, bug, delusion, deviation, fault, indecorum, lie, miss, mistake, slip, solecism, stumble, wrong), defeito (aberration, abuse, blemish, blister, blot, bug, failing, frailty, imperfection, malformation, mistake, shortcoming, taint, vice, weakness). (various references)

Romanian

eroare (aberration, fallacy, fault, miscarriage, mistake, slip, wrong), rãtãcire (aberration, mistake, roving, wandering), pãcat (guilt, mistake, offence, peccancy, sin, trespass), greşealå (aberration, mistake), greşealã (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blunder, defect, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, lapse, miscarriage, mistake, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, 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), alunecare (glide, run, slide, sliding, slip), abatere (anomaly, deflection, departure, deviation, digression, exception, excursion, kick, licence, license, obliquity, swerve, transgression). (various references)

Russian 

ошибка (aberration, bungle, bust, failing, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, slip, slip up, slipup, slip-up, stumble, trip). (various references)

Scottish

seabhaid (an error, going astray, wandering), mearachd (mistake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabuna (blunder, confusion, embarrassment, mix up), zabluda (fallacy, misapprehension, mistake), greška (blooper, bungle, fallacy, foult, goof, lapse, lapsus, miscarriage, mistake, slip up, slipup, trip, wrong). (various references)

Spanish

error (aberrancy, aberration, bug, fallacy, fault, foozle, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, misdeed, misdoing, Miss, mistake, misunderstanding, wrong), equivocación (aberration, blunder, equivocation, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus, misapprehension, misconception, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight), yerro (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Sranan

fowtu (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Swahili

kosa (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Swedish

misstag (aberration, blunder, errors, fallacy, lapse, mistake, oversight), fel (aberration, Amiss, blemish, corrigendum, defect, demerit, errors, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong), förvillelse (aberration, mistake), avvikelse (aberrancy, absconding, anomaly, declension, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, digress, digression, discrepancy, disorder, divergence, divergency, irregularity, swerve). (various references)

Tagalog

malî (aberration, mistake), kamalián (aberration, mistake). (various references)

Thai

ความเชื่อที่ผิด, ข้อผิดพลาด (boo-boo, fault). (various references)

Turkish

yanlışlık (falsity, fault, impropriety, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, mistake, slip, slip up, wrongness), yanlış (Amiss, corrigendum, errant, erroneous, fallacy, false, fault, improper, inaccuracy, inaccurate, inadvisable, incorrect, inexact, lapse, mis-, miscue, mistake, mistaken, untrue, wrong, wrongly, wry), yanılgı (delusion, mistake, paralogism), suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, culpability, delict, delinquency, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), falso (blunder, discord, false note, flub). (various references)

Ukrainian

огріх (balk), провина (blame, defalcation, delinquency, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misconduct, offence, offense, peccancy, shortcoming, sin, transgression, wickedness, wrong doing), помилка (aberration, balk, bloomer, bungle, delusion, failing, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, mistake, sin, slip, solecism, stumble, trip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sai sót (errancy), sự sai lầm (errancy, fallacy, falsehood, stumble), lỗi (mistake, mistook, trip), ý kiến sai lầm. (various references)

Welsh

gwall (defect, mistake, want), cyfeiliornad (heresy), cyfeiliorn (aberration), amryfusedd (blunder, oversight). (various references)

Yucatec

si'pil (aberration, mistake, sin, transgression). (various references)

Zulu

isiphosiso (aberration, mistake). (various references)

erratum, error. (various references)

gedwol, gedwyld. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "error": errorless, errors. (additional references)

Words ending with "error": counterterror, terror. (additional references)

Words containing "error": antiterrorism, antiterrorisms, antiterrorist, antiterrorists, counterterrorism, counterterrorisms, counterterrorist, counterterrorists, counterterrors, ecoterrorism, ecoterrorisms, ecoterrorist, ecoterrorists, terrorise, terrorised, terrorises, terrorising, terrorism, terrorisms, terrorist, terroristic, terrorists, terrorization, terrorizations, terrorize, terrorized, terrorizes, terrorizing, terrorless, terrors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Error" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arrrr, erlo, ero, eroe, erol, eron, eroo, eror, erot, errara, erren, Errep, errer, erri, errif, Erro, erroe, erron, errow, Errr, Errrr, Errrrr, errup, errur, erto, eryou, exrnr, exro, irori, irro, oror, orro, orror, rerr, urro. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: err, ore, roe.

-3 letters: er, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: errors, orrery, roarer, terror.

+2 letters: armorer, orderer, reorder, roarers, sorrier, terrors, worrier.

+3 letters: abhorrer, armorers, armourer, arrestor, barretor, borderer, borrower, burrower, forrader, furrower, garroter, harborer, harrower, mirrored, narrower, orderers, ornerier, orreries, parroter, preorder, procurer, properer, recorder, reformer, reorders, reporter, reprover, rerecord, reroller, resorter, restorer, retorter, retrorse, roturier, sorcerer, sorrower, torrider, torturer, verderor, worriers.