come upon
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To discover or find, especially by chance or accident.
Example Sentences
- "We came upon the skeleton while we were hiking."
- "Kala sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it."
- "I pray no harm will come upon you."