Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aberrance | erring, deviation. |
aberrancy | erring, deviation. |
aberrant | wandering or straying (noun) one who commits an aberration |
aberrantly | (Adv.) ABERRANT, wandering or straying. |
aberrate | to go astray; to diverge. |
aberration | an instance of being aberrant. |
anachronism | the error of placing a person, object, custom, or event in the wrong historical period. |
anachronistic | relating to anachronism. |
anachronous | relating to anachronism. |
anachronously | (Adv.) ANACHRONOUS, relating to anachronism. |
ballup | (US sl.) a mess up. |
barry | (Aust. sl.) an embarrassing mistake. |
bevue | (Fr.) a blunder, an inadvertent error. |
bish | a mistake, a blunder. |
blunder | a mistake; (verb) to make a mistake. |
blunderingly | (Adv.) BLUNDERING. |
blunk | (Scots) to spoil, bungle. |
boner | (US sl.) a stupid mistake. |
boob | to make a mistake. |
booboo | a blunder. |
botch | a clumsy patch (verb) to bungle |
botchedly | (Adv.) BOTCHED, bungled. |
botchery | clumsy or careless workmanship. |
bumble | confusion, indistinct utterance; (verb) to bungle. |
bungle | anything clumsily done; (verb) to work, make, or do clumsily. |
bunglingly | (Adv.) BUNGLING. |
clanger | (Coll.) a mistake. |
cockup | a mistake, a shambles. |
disinform | to inform incorrectly. |
emendate | to correct errors. |
err | to make a mistake. |
errable | (Obs.) capable of erring. |
errancy | the condition of erring or being in error. |
erratical | (Arch.) erratic. |
erratically | (Adv.) ERRATICAL, erratic. |
erraticism | the state of being erratic. |
erringly | (Adv.) ERRING, mistaken. |
erroneous | wrong. |
erroneously | (Adv.) ERRONEOUS, wrong. |
erroneousness | the state of being erroneous. |
error | a mistake. |
errorist | one holding a mistaken opinion. |
errorless | without errors. |
etourderie | (Fr.) heedlessness or stupid blundering. |
fallible | capable of erring. |
fallibleness | the state of being fallible. |
fallibly | (Adv.) FALLIBLE, capable of erring. |
flub | to bungle, botch. |
folly | foolishness; (verb, arch.) to act with folly. |
foozle | to manage or play awkwardly, to bungle. |
gaffe | (Fr.) a faux pas, a social mistake. |
goof | a stupid or awkward person (verb) to make a blunder |
inerrable | incapable of erring; infallible. |
inerrableness | the state of being inerrable, incapable of erring. |
inerrably | (Adv.) INERRABLE, incapable of erring. |
inerrancy | exemption from error, infallibility. |
malfunction | to function imperfectly or badly. |
malposed | being in the wrong position. |
metachronism | an error of dating an event too late. |
misacceptation | (Obs.) misinterpretation. |
misact | to act mistakenly. |
misadapt | to adapt wrongly. |
misadd | to add mistakenly. |
misadjust | to adjust wrongly; to throw out of adjustment. |
misaim | to aim badly. |
misalign | to align wrongly. |
misallege | (Obs.) to state erroneously. |
misallocate | to allocate wrongly. |
misallot | to apportion wrongly. |
misally | to make a wrong alliance. |
misalter | to alter wrongly; esp to alter for the worse. |
misanalysis | a wrong analysis. |
misapply | to apply wrongly. |
misassay | to assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. |
misassemble | to assemble wrongly. |
misassign | to assign wrongly. |
misassume | to assume wrongly. |
misatone | to atone wrongly. |
misaver | to aver mistakenly. |
misaward | to award mistakenly. |
misbecome | (Arch.) to be unbecoming to. |
misbegin | to begin wrongly. |
misbegot | begotten by mistake. |
misbegotten | begotten by mistake. |
misbehave | to behave wrongly. |
misbelief | erroneous or false belief. |
misbelieve | to hold a false or unorthodox belief. |
misbeliever | one who misbelieves. |
misbeseem | (Arch.) to be unsuited to. |
misbestow | to bestow improperly. |
misbestowal | the act of misbestowing. |
misbias | to bias wrongly. |
misbill | to bill mistakenly. |
misbind | to bind imperfectly. |
misbrand | to brand wrongly. |
misbuild | to build wrongly. |
misbutton | to button wrongly. |
miscall | to call by a wrong name; (in games) to make a bad call. |
miscaption | to caption wrongly. |
miscarry | to be unsuccessful. |
miscast | to cast wrongly. |
miscatalog | to catalog wrongly. |
mischallenge | (Spenser) an unjust challenge. |
mischannel | to channel wrongly. |
mischaracterise | to characterise wrongly. |
mischaracterize | to characterize wrongly. |
mischarge | to charge erroneously, as to an account. |
mischoice | a wrong choice. |
mischoose | to choose wrongly. |
miscitation | the act of misciting. |
miscite | to cite wrongly. |
misclaim | a mistaken claim. |
misclass | to class wrongly. |
miscode | to code wrongly. |
misconceit | (Spenser) a misconception; (verb) to have a wrong conception of. |
misconceive | to conceive wrongly. |
misconstrue | to construe wrongly. |
miscount | to count incorrectly. |
miscreate | to create wrongly. |
miscreation | wrong creation. |
misdate | to date wrongly. |
misdeemful | having a mistaken judgment of. |
misdefine | to define wrongly. |
misdescribe | to describe wrongly. |
misdevelop | to develop wrongly. |
misdevotion | a wrong devotion. |
misdial | to dial mistakenly. |
misdight | (Spenser) badly prepared; (verb) to mismanage or treat badly. |
misdirect | to point in the wrong direction. |
misdivision | a wrong division. |
misdo | to do wrongly. |
misdonne | (Spenser) to misdo. |
misdraw | to draw wrongly. |
misdrive | to drive wrongly. |
miseat | to eat improperly. |
misedit | to edit wrongly. |
misenrol | to enrol wrongly. |
misenroll | to enrol wrongly. |
misenter | to enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account. |
misentry | an erroneous entry or charge, as of an account. |
misestimate | to estimate wrongly. |
misevaluate | to evaluate wrongly. |
misfile | to file wrongly. |
misfire | to fail to fire. |
misfit | to fit wrongly. |
misfold | to fold wrongly. |
misframe | to frame wrongly. |
misfunction | to function wrongly. |
misgage | to gauge wrongly. |
misgauge | to gauge wrongly. |
misgo | (Dial.) to go the wrong way, go astray. |
misgrade | to grade erroneously. |
misgraff | (Shakesp.) badly grafted or matched. |
misgrow | to grow in the wrong way. |
misguess | to guess wrongly. |
misguggle | (Scots) to bungle, mar. |
mishandle | to handle wrongly. |
mishguggle | (Scots) to bungle, mar. |
mishit | to hit poorly. |
misimprove | to make worse by would-be improvement. |
misinfer | to infer incorrectly. |
misinform | to inform incorrectly. |
misinformer | one who misinforms. |
misinstruct | to instruct wrongly. |
misintend | (Obs.) to aim amiss. |
misinter | to inter wrongly. |
misjudge | to judge wrongly. |
misjudgement | an erroneous judgment. |
misjudgment | an erroneous judgment. |
miskeep | to keep wrongly. |
miskey | to key wrongly. |
miskick | to kick wrongly. |
misknow | to have a mistaken notion of or about. |
mislabel | to label wrongly. |
mislabor | to labor badly. |
misleader | one who leads into error. |
mislearn | to learn wrongly. |
mislie | to lie in a wrong position. |
mislight | to lead astray by a light. |
mislive | (Obs.) to live a bad life. |
mislodge | to lodge amiss. |
mismake | to make wrongly. |
mismanage | to manage wrongly. |
mismark | to mark wrongly. |
mismarry | to make a wrong marriage. |
mismate | to mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes. |
mismeasure | to measure or estimate incorrectly. |
mismeet | to meet under unfortunate circumstances. |
mismove | to move wrongly. |
misnumber | to number wrongly. |
misobserve | to observe inaccurately. |
misorder | to order incorrectly. |
misorient | to orient in a wrong direction. |
mispackage | to package incorrectly. |
misparse | to parse incorrectly. |
mispart | to part badly. |
mispatch | to patch wrongly. |
mispen | to pen wrongly. |
misperceive | to perceive wrongly. |
mispersuade | to persuade wrongly. |
misphrase | to phrase wrongly. |
misplan | to plan badly. |
misplant | to plant incorrectly. |
misplead | to err in pleading. |
mispoint | to point improperly; to punctuate wrongly. |
misposition | to position wrongly. |
misquote | to quote wrongly. |
misraise | to raise unreasonably. |
misrate | to rate erroneously. |
misread | to read incorrectly. |
misreckon | to reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. |
misrecord | to record incorrectly. |
misrefer | to refer incorrectly. |
misreference | a wrong reference; (verb) to reference inaccurately. |
misregister | to register wrongly. |
misrelate | to relate inaccurately. |
misrelation | the act of misrelating. |
misrely | to rely wrongly. |
misremember | to remember wrongly. |
misrender | to render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. |
misreport | to report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. |
misroute | to route incorrectly. |
missay | (Arch.) to say wrongly. |
misseat | to seat wrongly. |
missee | to see wrongly. |
missend | to send amiss or incorrectly. |
misset | to set or place wrongly. |
misshod | improperly shod. |
missort | to sort wrongly. |
misspace | to space wrongly. |
misspeak | to err in speaking. |
misspell | to spell incorrectly. |
misspend | to spend wrongly. |
misstamp | to stamp wrongly. |
misstart | to start wrongly. |
misstate | to state wrongly. |
missteer | to steer in a wrong direction. |
misstep | to make a wrong step. |
misstop | to stop wrongly. |
misstyle | to style wrongly. |
missuit | to suit badly. |
missummation | wrong addition. |
mistakable | liable to be mistaken. |
mistakably | (Adv.) MISTAKABLE, liable to be mistaken. |
mistake | to interpret wrongly. |
mistakeable | liable to be mistaken. |
mistakeably | (Adv.) MISTAKEABLE, that can be mistaken. |
mistaken | (PaP.) MISTAKE, to interpret wrongly. |
mistakenly | (Adv.) MISTAKEN. |
mistakenness | the state of being mistaken. |
mistaker | one who makes a mistake. |
misteach | to teach wrongly. |
mistell | to tell erroneously. |
mistend | to tend wrongly. |
misterm | to call by a wrong name; to miscall. |
mistime | to time incorrectly. |
mistitle | to accord the wrong title. |
mistrace | to trace wrongly. |
mistrain | to train amiss. |
mistreading | (Shakesp.) a false step, a misdeed. |
mistrial | a trial that miscarries. |
mistune | to tune wrongly. |
mistutor | to instruct amiss. |
mistype | to type incorrectly. |
misunion | a mistaken union. |
misuser | one who misuses. |
misween | (Spenser) to judge wrongly, have a wrong opinion of. |
miswend | (Spenser) to go wrong; to go astray. |
misword | to word incorrectly. |
miswrite | to write incorrectly. |
misyoke | to yoke or marry unsuitably. |
mux | to spoil, botch. |
parablepsis | false vision; oversight. |
parablepsy | false vision; oversight. |
parableptic | relating to parablepsy, false vision; oversight. |
paralogise | to reason falsely. |
paralogize | to reason falsely. |
prochronism | assigning a date to an event earlier than actual. |
refutation | the act of refuting. |
remedilessness | the state of being remediless. |
resipiscence | recognition of error; change to better frame of mind. |
ricket | a mistake or blunder. |
screwup | a disaster, a fiasco. |
slipless | free from errors. |
slipup | a mistake. |
tentation | experiment by trial and error. |
unerring | not erring. |
unerringly | (Adv.) UNERRING, not erring. |
vagarious | erratic in behaviour or direction. |
vagariously | (Adv.) VAGARIOUS, erratic in behaviour or direction. |