It is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are asking someone to find and point out an error in a text. Example: "Can you spot the error in this sentence? 'I don't like oranges and apple.'".
Can you spot the error in that statement?
P.S. Can you spot the error in the blackboard computation in this scene?
For years, thousands of supposedly more qualified solicitors, barristers and judges had failed to spot the error.
Even a kid at the bottom of the bottom stream in first-year logic could spot the error.
In the model of PMSM, the exact parameters of the system are required to properly control and spot the error.
This is a brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched survey – and "spot the error" must be one of the least rewarding responses to it.
Recruited medical students' suite of data included: End-of-Block feedback reports provided to students following each rotational clinical attachment: (Additional file 1 ) e-GRID exercises: a web-based grid recognition system developed for the study which, in this application, focused on prescribing errors within hospital in-patient prescribing charts – Spot-the-Error (see Additional file 2 ).
As you read the analysis, try to spot the "errors".
It is always better to spot the errors from the beginning.
It helps if you try to do something in between each time you edit your work, so that it's easier to distance yourself and spot the errors more objectively; it will also make it a little more tolerable to read it once more.
The bank spotted the error before the account-holder noticed.
