Definitions for err

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Spelling: [ur, er]
IPA: /ɜr, ɛr/

Err is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 6 anagrams from letters in err (err).

Definitions for err

verb (used without object)

  1. to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
  2. to go astray morally; sin:
  3. Archaic. to deviate from the true course, aim, or purpose.

Origin of err

1275-1325; Middle English erren Old French errer Latin errāre; akin to Gothic airzjan, Old High German irrôn, German irren

Examples for err

Deeply, however, did she err, and cruelly was she destined to be undeceived.

They tend to err heavily on the side of the government where kidnapping is concerned.

No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.

Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely?

err, yes, of course Newt Gingrich loved the number of debates.

In other words, the vast majority of Americans seem to agree with the American Mullahs, err, “hard-liners.”

For be assured that if I err in my own conduct I do not err intentionally, but from ignorance.

And let us be careful, for I think that the danger will be very serious if we err on this point.

But in the humble opinion of this correspondent, it should err on the side of "too high".

But I thought it better to err on the side of inclusion than on that of exclusion.

Word Value for err
Scrable

3

Words with friends

3

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