The phrase "conspicuous mistake" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a mistake that is easily seen and recognized. For example: The editor immediately spotted the writer's conspicuous mistake and sent the article back for revisions.
Reconstructing the original towers makes absolutely no sense, but it has a curious allure for many people, as if spending several billion dollars to duplicate one of the more conspicuous architectural mistakes of the twentieth century would be the way to show Al Qaeda that we are in command of contemporary civilization.
When the snail appears with its conspicuous, pulsing eyestalks, birds mistake the eyestalks for insect larvae, bite them off, and eat them.
The conspicuous red gasters are mistaken by birds for ripe fruits, such as Hyeronima alchorneoides, and eaten.
Make no mistake, despite the conspicuous absence of arguably the hottest buzzword in cloud service, BaaS is exactly the category Salesforce just entered – and for that reason, we've added them to our category-defining "Subway Map" graphic.
They may be wrong on particular issues, but (with a few conspicuous exceptions, we all make mistakes) they tend to be pretty shrewd when it comes to giving and taking away power.
Or maybe the lead was O.K., but the eraser smeared your mistakes around, making them more conspicuous.
And so the possibility that some of Carrie's freely-made choices — in sex, love, and conspicuous consumption — might actually be not only mistaken but actually morally corrosive could only be hinted at, never fully explored.
Thankfully, the Chinese gaming and social giant has not made the mistake of Snap's first-generation Spectacles, which highlighted the camera with a conspicuous yellow ring.
Silverstein and Sayre also argued that to ignore or misread this demographic is a huge mistake, recalling the failed attempt by the computer manufacturer Dell to launch "Della," a website conspicuous for the preponderance of pink tech products it hawked to women.
However, as the enemy was outfitted in blue, the men mistook them for Union troops and withheld their fire, deciding instead to make a conspicuous feint to the east to reconnoiter the "just-in" rack at Marshall's.
