mistake vs stain

stain vs mistake

mistake and stain both are nouns.

mistake and stain both are verbs.

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

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

mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
stain: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smear, smirch, spot, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, 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)	stain (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
an understanding of something that is not correct	a soiled or discolored appearance
part of a statement that is not correct	a symbol of disgrace or infamy
	anything regarded as making something unclean
	(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible

mistake (verb)	stain (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect	produce or leave stains
identify incorrectly	color with a liquid dye or tint
	color for microscopic study
	make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

Difference between mistake and stain

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