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— English words —

• precaution n. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good.
• precaution n. A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
• precaution v. (Transitive) To warn or caution beforehand.
• precaution v. (Transitive, rare) To take precaution against.

— English word, defined in French —

• precaution n. Précaution.

— In French —

• précaution n.f. Ce qu’on fait par prévoyance, pour ne pas tomber en quelque…
• précaution n.f. Circonspection ; ménagement ; prudence.

25 English words from 4 English definitions

act against beforehand care caution employed evil good measure misfortune off precaution precautionary prevent Previous previously rare secure success take taken Transitive ward ward␣off warn

5 English words from 3 foreign definitions

fait par pas pour prudence

6 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

Circonspection ménagement Précaution prévoyance quelque tomber

7 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

precautions precautional precautioned precautionary precautioning precautionaries precautionarily

3 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unprecautioned overprecautions nonprecautionary

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

overprecaution

19 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

AUT aut- Cau caut caution ECA ion Ion -ion pre pre- prec. rec rec. tio Tio tion -tion UTI

13 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ace Ace ACE acer CER ERP ITU I-tu NOI noit OIt OIT UAC

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

preauction unoperatic

9 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

aponeurotic eucatropine inter␣pocula neuropathic outcapering precautions Puerto␣Rican superaction supercation

16 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

anticoeur autocrine captioner cautioner cointreau Cointreau Cupertino cupration epuration preaction pre-action precation reauction recaption tauropine uniceptor

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

precation

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