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Is hazard a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hazard is a Scrabble US word. The word hazard is worth 19 points in Scrabble:

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Is hazard a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hazard is a Scrabble UK word and has 19 points:

H4A1Z10A1R1D2

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Yes. The word hazard is a Words With Friends word. The word hazard is worth 18 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3A1Z10A1R1D2

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6-letter words (1 found)

HAZARD,

4-letter words (2 found)

HAAR,HARD,

3-letter words (8 found)

AAH,ADZ,AHA,ARD,DAH,HAD,RAD,RAH,

2-letter words (7 found)

AA,AD,AH,AR,DA,HA,ZA,

You can make 18 words from hazard according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hazard

hazard

Etymology

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæ.zɚd/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhaz.əd/

Noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

  1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
  2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
  3. (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
  4. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
  5. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
  6. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
  7. Chance. [from 16th c.]
  8. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
  9. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
  10. (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Synonyms

  • (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
  • (chance of suffering harm): adventure
  • (anything hazarded or risked): bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager

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Verb

hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)

  1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  2. To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

Derived terms

  • hazard a guess

Translations

Further reading

  • “hazard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hasard, from Old French hasart.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦazart]

Noun

hazard m inan

  1. gambling
  2. risk, gamble

Declension

References

French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

  1. Archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800

Italian

Noun

hazard m (invariable)

  1. hazard lights (on a vehicle)

Middle French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

  1. hazard; obstacle

Descendants

  • French: hasard

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxa.zart/
  • Rhymes: -azart
  • Syllabification: ha‧zard

Noun

hazard m inan

  1. (singular only) gambling
  2. (electronics) race condition

Declension

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hasard.

Noun

hazard n (plural hazarduri)

  1. hazard

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xǎzard/
  • Hyphenation: ha‧zard

Noun

hàzard m (Cyrillic spelling ха̀зард)

  1. gamble, gambling
  2. risk, hazard

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org