Onset is valid Scrabble Word

Is onset a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is onset valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
5 points in Scrabble
6 points in WWF

Definitions for ONSET in dictionary:

VERB:

To assault; to set upon.
To set about; to begin.

NOUN:

a beginning
the beginning of something, especially something unpleasant
a military attack.
A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
A setting about; a beginning.
Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
the beginning or early stages
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

beginning

Words related to ONSET

beginning13 onding8 onsets6 onsetters9

Words that contain ONSET

onsets6 moonset9 moonsets10 onsetter8 onsetters9 onsetting10 onsettings11

How to use ONSET in a sentence

Labienus, when neither the ramparts or ditches could check the onset of the enemy, informs Caesar by messengers of what he intended to do.
It had the onset and the advantage of a bewildering surprise.
This lasted until the battle near Pharsalus, after which his soldiers at the onset of a contingent from Brundusium changed sides without even making a resistance.
That small, low craft might destroy a few of her assailants, but she would inevitably be carried at the first onset.
The English turned to charge them with their lances, and Randolph drew up his men in close order to receive the onset.
The first onset of man must have been comparatively slow, the first advances needed long ages.
Penrod was not altogether surprised by the onset of his friend.
Luc, Dumas and Ligneris, equally brave and wily, directed the onset, and the huge Tandakora raged before his warriors.
When the British fell back before the German onset Thompson remained in the trenches long enough to get pictures of the charging Germans.
Then, drawing their long swords, they awaited the onset.

The Persians would not abide the onset, but fled faster than before.
Now as we drew back some word went round among the Danish host and their onset slackened, and presently they drew off and left us to retreat as we would.
Had they marched against him in force he could not have withstood their onset.
With his handful of men he could not possibly stand before their onset.
The onset was giuen in the straits, greatlie to the aduantage of the Romans, being but a handfull in comparison to their enimies.
He appeared to me as a man who, with all his self-control, was compelling himself to meet the onset of an immeasurable devastating loss.
They threw themselves upon the victory-flushed Huns to whom this unconventional kind of fierce onset came as a complete and disconcerting surprise.
And both the other horsemen came forward in their turn, but their onset was not more successful than that of their companion.
Half-armed as they were, their desperate onset carried all before it.
Down they all go in one simultaneous gush, roaring like lions rudely awakened, each of the tawny brood actually kicking up a dust at the first onset.
But when the enemy saw such a determined troop advancing to oppose them, they hurried off without awaiting our onset, and left us masters of the field.
But the attack had been so sudden, and the Indians were so much superior in point of numbers, that six men fell at the first onset of the savages.
Now Biorn urged them on much to the onset, yet he himself went not so nigh as to run the risk of any hurt.
These two had rushed forward with such impetuosity at the first onset as to have been separated from their friends, and with four Christian natives, had been surrounded.
They had brought it for the feasting after the mound was made, and had forgotten it in the onset of Heidrek.
Georges rallied his troops and made a desperate onset upon the foe as they approached his camp.
The sea grew still, the onset of the waves Turned back again, rough tumult of the flood.
It is always most intense and most rapid in its onset when death is preceded by active muscular exertion.

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