luck
luck is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
- 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"
- noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
"it was my good luck to be there"
"they say luck is a lady"
- noun. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
"whatever my fortune may be"
"deserved a better fate"
Synonyms
chance, fortune, hazard, circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, portion
Common word forms
lucks, lucked, lucken, luckly, luckful, lucking, luckless
Words from these letters
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