onset

onset is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
2. noun. A setting about; a beginning.
3. noun. Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
4. transitive verb. To assault; to set upon.
5. transitive verb. To set about; to begin.
6. noun. (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

   "the attack began at dawn"

   Synonyms: attack, onrush, onslaught

7. noun. the beginning or early stages

   "the onset of pneumonia"

   Synonyms: oncoming

Synonyms

attack, onrush, onslaught, oncoming

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in onset:

notes, seton, steno, stone, tenso, tones

Common word forms

onsets, onsetter, onsetting

Words from these letters

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