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Definition: Slip-up |
Slip-upNoun1. A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Slip-upSynonyms: miscue (n), parapraxis (n), slip (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Slip-up |
| English words defined with "slip-up": Freudian slip. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Slip-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slip-up" is used about 23 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "slip-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 滑' (Slipped, slipping). (various references) | |
German | Panne (boob, breakdown, break-down, flat tire, goof, hitch, mishap, trouble), Missgeschick (accident, adversity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, reverse). (various references) | |
Hungarian | baklövés (bad break, balk, blunder, blundering, boner, break, crack, flub-up, goof, howler, slip up, stumble, trip), baki (bloomer, blooper, boner, break, clinker, flub-up, howler, trip). (various references) | |
Korean | 미끄러지십시" 위로. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ip-upslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mancada (blunder, mistake), equívoco (equivocal, fishy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, misjudgement, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight, questionable, quibble, quirk, suspicious), descuido (default, dereliction, disregard, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, neglect, negligence, oversight). (various references) | |
Russian | ошибка (aberration, bungle, bust, error, failing, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, slip, slip up, slipup, stumble, trip), неувязка (hitch), промах (bloomer, boner, muff). (various references) | |
Thai | ความบกพร่อง (bug). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lầm lỡ (false step, lapsus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pupils, slipup. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-p-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pilus, pulis, pulps, pupil. | |
-2 letters: lips, lisp, pips, plus, puli, pulp, puls, pups, slip. | |
-3 letters: lip, lis, pip, pis, piu, psi, pul, pup, pus, sip, sup, ups. | |
-4 letters: is, li, pi, si, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-p-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pileups, pulpits, slipups, uppiles. | |
+2 letters: pipefuls, plumpish, populism, populist, pulpiest, purplish, supplied, supplier, supplies, suppling, uppishly. | |
+3 letters: appliques, plumipeds, populisms, populists, pulpiness, pupilages, suppliant, suppliers, supplying. | |
+4 letters: dipperfuls, popularise, populistic, propulsion, propulsive, pupillages, resupplied, resupplies, septupling, suppletion, suppletive, suppliance, suppliants, supplicant, supplicate. | |
+5 letters: popularised, popularises, popularizes, populations, postnuptial, propulsions, pulpinesses, purposively, resupplying, semipopular, superpolite, supplanting, suppletions, suppliances, suppliantly, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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