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Is error a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word error is a Scrabble US word. The word error is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is error a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word error is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word error is a Words With Friends word. The word error is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

ERROR,

4-letter words (1 found)

RORE,

3-letter words (4 found)

ERR,ORE,REO,ROE,

2-letter words (4 found)

ER,OE,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from error according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of error

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Definitions and meaning of error

error

Alternative forms

  • errour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ĕrʹə(r); IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: ĕrʹər; IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/
    • (some accents) IPA(key): /ɛɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: error
  • Homophone: era (in non-rhotic accents)
  • Homophones: air, e'er, ere, heir (in some US pronunciations)
  • Homophone: err (in some US pronunciations)

Noun

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

  1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
  2. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
  4. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
  6. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
  7. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
  8. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
  9. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
  10. (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.

Synonyms

  • (state of being wrong): wrength
  • (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
  • See also Thesaurus:error

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Verb

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

  1. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
    The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
    Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
    This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
  2. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
    The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
  3. (nonstandard) To err.

Synonyms

  • err

Derived terms

  • error out

Translations

See also

  • error on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • unerring

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Noun

error m (plural errores)

  1. error

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [əˈror]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [əˈro]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [eˈroɾ]

Noun

error m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural errors)

  1. error
    Synonyms: equivoc, equivocació, incorrecció

Related terms

  • errar

Further reading

  • “error” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “error”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “error” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “error” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Noun

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonym: erro

Related terms

  • errar

Further reading

  • “error” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *erzōs. Equivalent to erro (“I err, I stray”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ror/, [ˈɛrːɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ror/, [ˈɛrːor]

Noun

error m (genitive errōris); third declension

  1. wandering, straying, going astray
  2. wavering, uncertainty
  3. error, mistake, fault
    Synonyms: vitium, culpa, malum, iniūria, noxa, crīmen, peccātum, dēlinquentia, dēlictum, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, virtūs, rēctum
  4. delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding
  5. solecism
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

error

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of errō

References

  • “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • error in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • error in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eˈroɾ/ [eˈroɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: e‧rror

Noun

error m (plural errores)

  1. error
    Synonyms: equivocación, yerro

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “error”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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