err

Other forms of err

past tense

erred·

present participle

erring·

third person

errs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about err

What does err mean?

err means "to make a mistake or be incorrect". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in err?

err has 1 syllable: err. In IPA it is /ˈɛɹ/.

What is another word for err?

Close synonyms include mistake, slip, stray, drift. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is err a common word?

err is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with err?

4 words rhyme with err. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.