mistake vs lapse

lapse vs mistake

mistake and lapse both are nouns.

mistake and lapse both are verbs.

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

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

mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
lapse: a mistake resulting from inattention

Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, 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)	lapse (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from inattention
an understanding of something that is not correct	a failure to maintain a higher state
part of a statement that is not correct	a break or intermission in the occurrence of something

mistake (verb)	lapse (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect	go back to bad behavior
identify incorrectly	drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
	end, at least for a long time
	for time to move forward
	pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
	let slip

Difference between mistake and lapse

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