mistake vs skip

skip vs mistake

mistake and skip both are nouns.

mistake and skip both are verbs.

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

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

mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
skip: 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, 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.

mistake (noun)	skip (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	a gait in which steps and hops alternate
part of a statement that is not correct

mistake (verb)	skip (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect	bypass
identify incorrectly	cause to skip over a surface
	jump lightly
	leave suddenly
	bound off one point after another
	intentionally fail to attend

Difference between mistake and skip

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