diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst
index 13827e8fc4c33..9e40c28db004b 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Other enhancements
 
 - :class:`Styler` may now render CSS more efficiently where multiple cells have the same styling (:issue:`30876`)
 - When writing directly to a sqlite connection :func:`to_sql` now supports the ``multi`` method (:issue:`29921`)
--
+- `OptionError` is now exposed in `pandas.errors` (:issue:`27553`)
 -
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pandas/errors/__init__.py b/pandas/errors/__init__.py
index ebe9a3d5bf472..29e69cc5fe509 100644
--- a/pandas/errors/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/errors/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 Expose public exceptions & warnings
 """
 
+from pandas._config.config import OptionError
+
 from pandas._libs.tslibs import NullFrequencyError, OutOfBoundsDatetime
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_errors.py b/pandas/tests/test_errors.py
index d72c00ceb0045..515d798fe4322 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_errors.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_errors.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
         "EmptyDataError",
         "ParserWarning",
         "MergeError",
+        "OptionError",
     ],
 )
 def test_exception_importable(exc):