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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. 1noun

    A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

  2. 2noun

    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. 3noun

    A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.

  4. 4noun

    A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.

  5. 5noun

    The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.

  6. 6noun

    The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.

  7. 7noun

    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. 8noun

    A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

  9. 9noun

    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. 10noun

    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

    faultmistake
  11. 11noun

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

    Synonyms

    misplay
  12. 12noun

    inadvertent incorrectness

    Synonyms

    erroneousness
  13. 13noun

    departure from what is ethically acceptable

    Synonyms

    wrongdoing
  14. 14noun

    a misconception resulting from incorrect information

  15. 15noun

    part of a statement that is not correct

    "the book was full of errors"

    Synonyms

    mistake
  16. 16noun

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

Synonyms

faultmistakemisplayerroneousnesswrongdoing

Common word forms

errorserrorfulerrorless

Words from these letters

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