Dictionary Entry
err
err is a 3-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wander; to roam; to stray. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 3 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To wander; to roam; to stray.
- 2intransitive verb
To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
- 3intransitive verb
To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
- 4intransitive verb
To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
- 5intransitive verb
To offend, as by erring.
- 6verb
to make a mistake or be incorrect
- 7verb
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"
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