mistake vs slip-up

slip-up vs mistake

mistake and slip-up both are nouns.

mistake is a verb but slip-up is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mistake	Yes	No	Yes	No
slip-up	Yes	No	No	No

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

mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
slip-up: a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, 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)	slip-up (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
an understanding of something that is not correct
part of a statement that is not correct

mistake (verb)	slip-up (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect
identify incorrectly

Difference between mistake and slip-up

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