error vs misconception

error and misconception both are nouns.

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

As nouns, misconception is a hypernym of error; that is, misconception is a word with a broader meaning than error:

error (noun)	misconception (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an incorrect conception
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
inadvertent incorrectness
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