fortune: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 10 letter points · starts with F · ends with E
Meaning of fortune
noun
- countable, uncountable
Destiny, especially favorable.
Example: She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
- countable, uncountable
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
- countable, uncountable
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- countable, uncountable
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
Listed forms: fortunes.
Source: Wiktionary — fortune.
verb
- transitive
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
- transitive
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
- intransitive, obsolete
To happen, to take place.
Listed forms: fortunes, fortuning, fortuned.
Source: Wiktionary — fortune.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for fortune.
noun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
noun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
noun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fortune in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fortune
F(4) + O(1) + R(1) + T(1) + U(1) + N(1) + E(1) = 10 points.
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Anagrams of fortune
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from fortune
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