glitch

noun/ɡlɪtʃ/

Frequency rank: #8,113 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a small, sudden malfunction or error in a system or machine.

Illustration for the English word “glitch”

Example sentence

The software had one small glitch that caused the screen to freeze unexpectedly.

Synonyms & related words

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