1 | noun | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 2 | noun | inadvertent incorrectness 3 | noun | a misconception resulting from incorrect information 4 | noun | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed 5 | noun | departure from what is ethically acceptable 6 | noun | (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer 7 | noun | part of a statement that is not correct (7 meanings)

'erer (IPA: ˈɛrɝ)

er-ror (5 letters | 2 syllables)

1300 (High Middle ages) (726 years ago)

Old French | Latin

written: 2527th most common (1 in 24390 words) ( >99% noun)

spoken: 2937th most common (1 in 71429 words)

(includes some inflected forms)

errors

fault | mistake | erroneousness | erroneous belief | misplay | wrongdoing | computer error | misconception (total: 8)

ballup | betise | bloomer | blooper | blot | blunder | boo-boo | botch | bungle | cockup | confusion | distortion | flub | folly | foolishness | ... (total: 53)

nonaccomplishment | nonachievement | incorrectness | wrongness | misconception | failure | evil | evilness | happening | natural event | occurrence | occurrent | misstatement (total: 13)

(none among common words)

air | e'er | ere | err | heir (total: 5)

terror

(none among common words)

by trial and error | computer error | disk error | error correction code | error-prone | inborn error of metabolism | margin of error | plaintiff in error | rounding error | run-time error | ... (total: 18)

Error (US population: 100 people, white: 78%)

Trial and Error

error.com | error.net | error.info | error.biz

Accident cause | Bad throw, e.g. | Ballfiend bobble | Ballplayer's bobble | Blooper | Bobble | Boner | Boo-boo | Botched grounder | ... (total: 55) (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

5 (International English) | 5 (North American English)

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