misstep

A step that is wrong, a false step.

On a high ledge, a misstep could be fatal.

[…] burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. He remembered only to avoid a misstep and to keep his direction.

An error or mistake.

His comment was a misstep that could cost him dearly.

Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.

To step badly or incorrectly.

My dance partner misstepped and landed on my toe.

Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.

To make an error or mistake.

I don't want to misstep by offending them.