Definitions for haps

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Spelling: [hap]
IPA: /hæp/

Haps is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in haps (ahps).

Definitions for haps

noun

  1. one's luck or lot.
  2. an occurrence, happening, or accident.
  3. a comforter or quilt.
  4. Apis.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover with or as with a comforter or quilt.

verb (used without object)

  1. to happen:

Origin of haps

1150-1200; Middle English Old Norse happ luck, chance; akin to Old English gehæp fit, convenient; probably akin to OCS kobŭ auspice, Old Irish cob victory

Examples for haps

And I assisted my fair cousin to remove her shawl and other haps.

But how haps it, Captain, that your intended marriage with my father-in-law's third daughter is not solemnised to-day?

It was just awfu' bonny, and with plenty of haps she could take no harm, Mysie said.

Hosged for hogshead, and haps for hasp are well-known instances.

I have nothing to tell you, for all the "haps" of my life are so indifferent.

Here we are nearest to a touch of sentiment,—apart from the mere drama of haps and mishaps.

We shall hope to hear a great deal of your journey, with all its haps and mishaps.

Loving goes by haps;Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

To recount in detail the haps and mishaps of each day's progress would take more time than I can command.

Here we have the haps and mishaps, the trials and triumphs, of a delightful New England family.

Word Value for haps
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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