error vs pratfall

pratfall vs error

error and pratfall both are nouns.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
pratfall: an embarrassing mistake

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, 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, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	pratfall (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an embarrassing mistake
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a fall onto your buttocks
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

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