By mistake
The crossword clue "By mistake" is answered by INERROR, a 7-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
INERROR
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INERROR answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for INERROR
Every other clue in this collection answered by INERROR, most used first.
- Mistaken - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Mistakenly - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Wrong - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Off - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Off base - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Printing mistake - ERRATUM, used 8 times
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