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Is chap a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word chap is a Scrabble US word. The word chap is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is chap a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chap is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3H4A1P3

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Yes. The word chap is a Words With Friends word. The word chap is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

CAPH,CHAP,

3-letter words (6 found)

ACH,CAP,CHA,HAP,PAC,PAH,

2-letter words (4 found)

AH,CH,HA,PA,

You can make 12 words from chap according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of chap

chap hcap cahp achp hacp ahcp chpa hcpa cpha pcha hpca phca caph acph cpah pcah apch pach hapc ahpc hpac phac aphc pahc

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word chap. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in chap.

Definitions and meaning of chap

chap

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃæp/
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

  1. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
  2. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
  3. (Southern US) A child.
Derived terms
  • chap-hop
  • chapess
  • chappie
  • chappo
  • old chap
Descendants
  • Pennsylvania German: Tschaepp (“guy”)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.

Verb

chap (third-person singular simple present chaps, present participle chapping, simple past and past participle chapped)

  1. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  2. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  3. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
Derived terms
  • chap someone's hide
  • chapped
  • chapstick
Translations

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

  1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  2. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
  3. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
Derived terms
  • chappy

Etymology 3

From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

  1. (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
  2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Related terms
  • chop
Translations

Etymology 4

Shortening

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

  1. (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

See also

Anagrams

  • CHPA, HCAP, PHAC, Pach

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

chap m (plural chappen, diminutive chappie n)

  1. Alternative spelling of sjap.

Hokkien

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xap/
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Syllabification: chap

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

  • chaps

Interjection

chap

  1. used to express an unexpected movement involving a sudden grasping of something
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chap

  1. second-person singular imperative of chapać

Further reading

  • chap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • chap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old English *ċeappian, *ċieppan, from Proto-Germanic *kapp-, *kap- (“to chop; cut; split”), like also English chop. The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *cuppare (“to behead”), from Latin caput (“head”) and influenced by Old French couper (“to strike”).

Akin to Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), Middle Low German koppen (“to cut off, lop, poll”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (attested in forċippian (“to cut off”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃap/

Verb

chap

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To knock (on) or strike.

References

Semai

Alternative forms

  • cap

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *cap ~ *caap (“to seize”). Cognate with Old Khmer cap (“to seize, catch”), Kuy caːp (“to catch, hold”).

Verb

chap

  1. to hold
  2. to catch; to seize
  3. to touch

Synonyms

  • (to hold): pegak
  • (to touch): lèèw

Derived terms

References


Source: wiktionary.org