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Yes. The word beak is a Scrabble US word. The word beak is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word beak is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

BAKE,BEAK,

3-letter words (6 found)

AKE,BAE,KAB,KAE,KEA,KEB,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AE,BA,BE,EA,KA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from beak according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of beak

beak ebak baek abek eabk aebk beka ebka bkea kbea ekba keba bake abke bkae kbae akbe kabe eakb aekb ekab keab akeb kaeb

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Definitions and meaning of beak

beak

Etymology 1

From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”)

Alternative forms

  • beck (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /biːk/
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

  1. (anatomy)
    1. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
      Synonym: bill
    2. A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
    3. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
    4. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
    5. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
    6. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
  2. (by extension)
    1. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
    2. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
    3. (farriery) A toe clip.
    4. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
    5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
    6. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
  3. (slang)
    1. A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
      Synonyms: honker, schnozzle
    3. (especially MTE) A person's mouth.
    4. (uncountable, Southern England) Cocaine.
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Verb

beak (third-person singular simple present beaks, present participle beaking, simple past and past participle beaked)

  1. (transitive) To strike with the beak.
  2. (transitive) To seize with the beak.
  3. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:play truant
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Etymology 2

Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

  1. (slang, British) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
  2. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:
      It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.

References

  • Ranko Matasović (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, →ISBN, page 60

Anagrams

  • Baek, bake, beka

Basque

Noun

beak

  1. absolutive plural of be
  2. ergative singular of be

Tyap

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛ́jɑ́ɡ/

Noun

beak

  1. bow down

Source: wiktionary.org