hazard

hazard is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A game of chance played with dice. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 18 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A game of chance played with dice.
2. noun. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
3. noun. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
4. noun. Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
5. noun. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
6. noun. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
7. noun. To venture to incur, or bring on.
8. intransitive verb. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
9. noun. an obstacle on a golf course
10. noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

    "bad luck caused his downfall"

    "we ran into each other by pure chance"

    Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck

11. noun. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

    "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"

    Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk

12. verb. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

    "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"

    "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"

    Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture

13. verb. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

    "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"

    Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk

14. verb. put at risk

    "I will stake my good reputation for this"

    Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture

Synonyms

chance, fortune, luck, endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk, guess, pretend, venture, adventure, gamble, jeopardize, stake

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hazard:

adzhar

Common word forms

hazards, hazarded, hazarder, hazardful, hazarding, hazardize, hazardous, hazardable, hazardless

Words from these letters

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