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100 Best Synonyms for “Error”

August 31, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. aberration A departure from what is correct
2. anomaly Something irregular or incorrect
3. artifact A misleading result from method
4. bad call A wrong decision or judgment
5. bad data Incorrect or faulty data
6. bad decision A poor choice
7. bad move A poor or mistaken action
8. blemish A small flaw or defect
9. blooper An amusing public mistake
10. blunder A serious careless mistake
11. botch A badly made mistake
12. breakdown A failure in operation
13. bug A software or technical fault
14. contamination Unwanted impurity causing inaccuracy
15. contradiction A conflict showing something wrong
16. corruption Damage causing incorrect data
17. defacement Damage causing a flaw
18. defect A flaw or imperfection
19. deficiency A lack or fault
20. delusion A strongly held false belief
21. deviation A departure from the correct course
22. discrepancy A difference indicating something wrong
23. displacement Movement from the proper position
24. distortion A change from accuracy or truth
25. drift Gradual departure from accuracy
26. failing A weakness or fault
27. failure A lack of correct performance
28. fallacy A mistaken belief or argument
29. false negative A wrongly negative result
30. false positive A wrongly positive result
31. false step A mistaken action or move
32. falsehood Something untrue or incorrect
33. fault A mistake or defect
34. faux pas An embarrassing social mistake
35. flaw A weakness or imperfection
36. gaffe An embarrassing social mistake
37. glitch A small technical fault
38. howler A glaring or foolish mistake
39. imperfection A fault or flaw
40. imprecision Lack of precision or exactness
41. inaccuracy Something not accurate or correct
42. incongruity Something that does not fit
43. inconsistency A lack of agreement or correctness
44. incorrect answer A response that is not right
45. incorrect result A result that is not right
46. incorrectness The state of being wrong
47. inexactness Lack of exact accuracy
48. irregularity Something not correct or regular
49. lapse A temporary failure or mistake
50. malfunction A failure to work correctly
51. misbelief A mistaken belief
52. miscalculation A wrong calculation or judgment
53. misclassification Incorrect classification
54. misconception A mistaken idea or belief
55. miscount A counting mistake
56. miscue A mistaken cue or action
57. misdiagnosis An incorrect diagnosis
58. misestimate A wrong estimate
59. mishap A small unfortunate mistake
60. misidentification Incorrect identification
61. misjudgment A wrong opinion or decision
62. mislabeling Incorrect labeling
63. mismeasurement An incorrect measurement
64. misnumbering Incorrect numbering
65. misprint A printing or typing mistake
66. misquotation An incorrect quotation
67. misquote An incorrect quoted statement
68. misreading A wrong reading or interpretation
69. misreckoning A wrong estimate or calculation
70. misreport An incorrect report
71. misstatement An incorrect statement
72. misstep A wrong action or judgment
73. mistake Something done or judged incorrectly
74. noise Unwanted disturbance causing inaccuracy
75. omission Something wrongly left out
76. oversight A mistake from not noticing
77. overstatement An exaggerated or incorrect statement
78. pitfall A hidden source of mistakes
79. poor call A bad judgment or decision
80. pratfall An embarrassing mistake
81. problem Something wrong or incorrect
82. scar A lasting mark or flaw
83. shortcoming A fault or weakness
84. slip A small accidental mistake
85. snafu A confused mistake or problem
86. solecism A language or etiquette mistake
87. stumble A minor mistake or lapse
88. trip-up A mistake or stumbling point
89. typo A typing mistake
90. untruth A false statement or belief
91. variance An unwanted difference from expected value
92. warp A distortion from the correct shape
93. weakness A fault or deficiency
94. wrong answer An incorrect response
95. wrong call An incorrect decision or judgment
96. wrong decision An incorrect choice
97. wrong move An incorrect action
98. wrong result An incorrect outcome
99. wrong turn An incorrect choice or direction
100. wrongness The quality of being incorrect
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