error vs stain

error and stain both are nouns.

error is not a verb while stain is a verb.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
stain: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

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

error (noun)	stain (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a soiled or discolored appearance
inadvertent incorrectness	a symbol of disgrace or infamy
departure from what is ethically acceptable	anything regarded as making something unclean
a misconception resulting from incorrect information	(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
part of a statement that is not correct
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

error (verb)	stain (verb)
	produce or leave stains
	color with a liquid dye or tint
	color for microscopic study
	make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

Difference between error and stain

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