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Is accidence a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word accidence is a Scrabble US word. The word accidence is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is accidence a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word accidence is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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Is accidence a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word accidence is a Words With Friends word. The word accidence is worth 20 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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9-letter words (1 found)

ACCIDENCE,

7-letter words (1 found)

CADENCE,

6-letter words (10 found)

ACCEDE,ACCEND,AEDINE,CANDIE,CNIDAE,DECANE,DECANI,DECCIE,EDENIC,INCEDE,

5-letter words (17 found)

ACNED,AINEE,CADEE,CADIE,CANED,CANID,CNIDA,DAINE,DANCE,DECAN,DEICE,DIANE,DIENE,EANED,ENIAC,NICAD,NIECE,

4-letter words (35 found)

ACED,ACID,ACNE,AIDE,AINE,ANCE,CADE,CADI,CAID,CAIN,CANE,CECA,CEDE,CEDI,CIDE,CINE,DACE,DEAN,DEEN,DENE,DENI,DICE,DINE,ECAD,ECCE,EIDE,EINA,EINE,ICED,IDEA,IDEE,NEED,NICE,NIDE,NIED,

3-letter words (28 found)

ACE,AID,AIN,AND,ANE,ANI,CAD,CAN,CEE,CID,DAE,DAN,DEE,DEI,DEN,DIE,DIN,EAN,EEN,END,ENE,ICE,IDE,NAE,NED,NEE,NID,NIE,

2-letter words (15 found)

AD,AE,AI,AN,DA,DE,DI,EA,ED,EE,EN,ID,IN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 108 words from accidence according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of accidence

accidence

Etymology

  • First attested in the late 14th century.
  • (grammar): First attested in the mid 15th century.
  • From Middle English accidence, accidens, from Latin accidentia (“accidental matters”), from accidēns, present participle of accidere (“to happen”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæk.sɪ.dəns/
  • IPA(key): /ˈæk.sə.dəns/, /ˈæk.sə.dɛns/, /ˈæk.sə.dənts/, /ˈæk.sə.dɛnts/

Noun

accidence (countable and uncountable, plural accidences)

  1. (grammar) The inflection of words.
    • 1669, John Milton, Accedence Commenc’t Grammar (title of a Latin grammar)[2]
    • 1871, Review of An Elementary Greek Grammar by William W. Goodwin, North American Review, Volume 112, No. 231, 1 April, 1871, p. 427,[3]
      Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well […]
  2. The rudiments of any subject.
  3. A book containing the first principles of grammar; (by extension) a book containing the rudiments of any subject or art.

Related terms

  • accident

References

  • “accidence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Source: wiktionary.org