error vs skip

error and skip both are nouns.

error is not a verb while skip is a verb.

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

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

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

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, 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)	skip (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from neglect
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a gait in which steps and hops alternate
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

error (verb)	skip (verb)
	bypass
	cause to skip over a surface
	jump lightly
	leave suddenly
	bound off one point after another
	intentionally fail to attend

Difference between error and skip

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