error

error is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A wandering; a roving or irregular course. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
2. noun. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
3. noun. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
4. noun. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
5. noun. The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
6. noun. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
7. noun. The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error.
8. noun. A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
9. noun. A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
10. noun. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

    "he made a bad mistake"

    "she was quick to point out my errors"

    Synonyms: fault, mistake

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

    Synonyms: misplay

12. noun. inadvertent incorrectness

    Synonyms: erroneousness

13. noun. departure from what is ethically acceptable

    Synonyms: wrongdoing

14. noun. a misconception resulting from incorrect information
15. noun. part of a statement that is not correct

    "the book was full of errors"

    Synonyms: mistake

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

Synonyms

fault, mistake, misplay, erroneousness, wrongdoing

Common word forms

errors, errorful, errorless

Words from these letters

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