oversight

oversight is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
2. noun. An overlooking; an omission; an error.
3. noun. Escape from an overlooked peril.
4. noun. a mistake resulting from inattention

   Synonyms: lapse

5. noun. management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

   Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision

6. noun. an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

   Synonyms: inadvertence

Synonyms

lapse, superintendence, supervising, supervision, inadvertence

Common word forms

oversights

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