fault

noun/fɔlt/

Frequency rank: #1,634 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Responsibility for something wrong; a mistake or weakness.

Illustration for the English word “fault”

Example sentence

The accident was the driver's fault because he was not paying attention.

Synonyms & related words

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