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

1. intransitive verb. To wander; to roam; to stray.
2. intransitive verb. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
3. intransitive verb. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
4. intransitive verb. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
5. intransitive verb. To offend, as by erring.
6. verb. to make a mistake or be incorrect

   Synonyms: mistake, slip

7. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: drift, stray

Synonyms

mistake, slip, drift, stray

Common word forms

errs, erred, erring, errable

Words from these letters

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