8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
noun a single distinct event
noun a public disturbance
adjective falling or striking of light rays on something
originRecorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).
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