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Is event a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word event is a Scrabble US word. The word event is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is event a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word event is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Yes. The word event is a Words With Friends word. The word event is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

EVENT,

4-letter words (9 found)

EEVN,ETEN,EVEN,EVET,NETE,NEVE,TEEN,TENE,VENT,

3-letter words (9 found)

EEN,ENE,EVE,NEE,NET,TEE,TEN,VEE,VET,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,EN,ET,NE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 25 words from event according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of event

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word event. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in event.

Definitions and meaning of event

event

Etymology 1

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈvɛnt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /əˈvɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

event (plural events)

  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
    • 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
      Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
    In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
  5. (figurative, uncommon, dated) A remarkable person.
    Synonym: sensation
  6. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  7. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  8. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    If X {\displaystyle X} is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X = 1 {\displaystyle X=1} , X = 2 {\displaystyle X=2} , X ≥ 5 , X ≠ 4 , {\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,} and X ∈ { 1 , 3 , 5 } {\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}} .
  9. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  10. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
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Further reading
  • “event”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “event”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

  1. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
    • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,[1]
      […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

Etymology 2

From French éventer.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
    • c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,[2]
      ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
      The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
    • 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,[4]
      For as I would my gorget have undon
      To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,
      An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
      Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.
    • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),[5]
      […] as Phœbus throws
      His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
      Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
      A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
      T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
      To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,
      Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛˈvɛnt/

Noun

event

  1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

  • begivenhed

See also

  • eventuel

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus, from ēveniō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.vɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ivɛnt
  • Syllabification: e‧vent

Noun

event m inan

  1. event (prearranged social activity)
    Hypernym: wydarzenie

Declension

Further reading

  • event in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • event in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛˈvɛnt/

Noun

event n

  1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

  • evenemang
  • eventuell

Anagrams

  • teven, veten

Source: wiktionary.org