mistake vs omission

omission vs mistake

mistake and omission both are nouns.

mistake is a verb but omission is not a verb.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, 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)	omission (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from neglect
an understanding of something that is not correct	neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
part of a statement that is not correct	any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
	something that has been omitted

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

Difference between mistake and omission

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