mistake vs distortion

distortion vs mistake

mistake and distortion both are nouns.

mistake is a verb but distortion is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mistake	Yes	No	Yes	No
distortion	Yes	No	No	No

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

mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
distortion: the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, 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.

mistake (noun)	distortion (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
an understanding of something that is not correct	the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
part of a statement that is not correct	a change for the worse
	an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
	a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
	a shape resulting from distortion

mistake (verb)	distortion (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect
identify incorrectly

Difference between mistake and distortion

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