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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, titubation, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Take One False Step (1949) His Last False Step (1919) Maggie's First False Step (1917) His First False Step (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expression using "FALSE STEP": a false step. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "FALSE STEP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hap i gabuar (faux pas, misstep), gabim (balk, baulk, boob, delinquency, delusion, error, fallacy, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, slip up, trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عثرة (peccadillo, slip, stumble), خطوات خاطئة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спъване (preclusion, prevention, retardation, retardment, snub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chybný krok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | misstap (aberration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | mispaŝo (aberration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | horjahdus (stumble, stumbling), harhaaskel (lapse, mistake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faux pas (faux pas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fehltritt (fall, indiscretion, lapse, misconduct, misstep, slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στραβοπάτημα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מש'" (blunder, error, fault, mistake, oversight, slip up), מעי"" (fall, slip, slipping, stumble, trip, tumble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elhibázott lépés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | passo falso (stumble, trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 了見違い (delusion, indiscretion, wrong idea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りょうけ"ちがい (a misstep, delusion, indiscretion, mistaken idea or notion, wrong idea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alsefay epstay passoemfalso (aberration). (various references) неверный шаг. (various references) pogrešan korak (faux pas, gaffe, misstep, mis-step). (various references) paso falso. (various references) felsteg (faux pas, lapse, stumble). (various references) yanlış adım (a false step, devious step), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness). (various references) sự lầm lỡ (lapsus, slip-up), bước lỡ, bước hụt sự sai lầm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | casus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: tapeless. | |
-2 letters: elapses, falsest, fatless, pastels, pesetas, pestles, pleases, staples, teasels. | |
-3 letters: asleep, easels, elapse, elates, etapes, feases, feasts, festal, fleets, lapses, leases, leasts, palest, palets, passee, passel, pastel, pastes, peases, peseta, pestle, petals, plates, please, pleats, safest, saleps, sepals, septal, slates, sleeps, sleets, spales, spates, speels, spelts, splats, stales, stapes, staple, steals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-p-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: stepfamilies. | |
+5 letters: profitableness, wafflestompers. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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