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. |