error vs confusion

confusion vs error

error and confusion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
error	Yes	No	No	No
confusion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, confusion is a hyponym of error; that is, confusion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than error:

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
confusion: a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	confusion (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
inadvertent incorrectness	a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
departure from what is ethically acceptable	a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
a misconception resulting from incorrect information	disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
part of a statement that is not correct
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Difference between error and confusion

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