error vs lapse

error and lapse both are nouns.

error is not a verb while lapse is a verb.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
lapse: a mistake resulting from inattention

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, 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)	lapse (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from inattention
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a failure to maintain a higher state
inadvertent incorrectness	a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
departure from what is ethically acceptable
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
part of a statement that is not correct
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

error (verb)	lapse (verb)
	go back to bad behavior
	drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
	end, at least for a long time
	for time to move forward
	pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
	let slip

Difference between error and lapse

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