Synonyms for occur
Most common
All synonyms
Verb
1. Happen — to present or offer itself
happen, take place, appear, come, arise, come about, transpire, befall, come to pass, eventuate, go on, hold, pass off, chance dated, come up slang, hap dated, betide formal dated, evene dated, betime dated, eventualize rare, eventualise UK, bechance rare
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To present or offer itself.
I will write if the opportunity occurs.
Related words
- Word family
- occurable occurrable occurrent occurrence
Forms
- Past participle
- occurred
e.g. occurred → happened, appeared, comen, arisen…
Example sentences
- happen The news left me wondering what would happen next.
- appear Tom and Mary both appear to be in a cheerful mood.
- arise Should anything arise, she will be prepared for it.
- transpire Do you think a fight will transpire after school today?
By length
- 3 letters
- hit1, hap1
- 4 letters
- come1, hold1
- 5 letters
- arise2, evene
- 6 letters
- chance1, happen2, appear2, befall2, betide2, betime
- 8 letters
- bechance
- 9 letters
- transpire3, eventuate
- 11 letters
- eventualize, eventualise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (arise2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- se produire
- Italiano
- manifestarsi
- Deutsch
- eintreten