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Is cheap a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cheap is a Scrabble US word. The word cheap is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is cheap a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cheap is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3H4E1A1P3

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Yes. The word cheap is a Words With Friends word. The word cheap is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

CHAPE,CHEAP,PEACH,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACHE,CAPE,CAPH,CHAP,EACH,EPHA,HEAP,PACE,PECH,

3-letter words (16 found)

ACE,ACH,APE,CAP,CEP,CHA,CHE,ECH,HAE,HAP,HEP,PAC,PAH,PEA,PEC,PEH,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AH,CH,EA,EH,HA,HE,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 38 words from cheap according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cheap

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Definitions and meaning of cheap

cheap

Alternative forms

  • chap, chop (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English cēap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ċēapian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaupōn (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caupō (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman. For sense evolution to "inexpensive," compare bargain or French bon marché.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃip/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chēp, IPA(key): /t͡ʃiːp/
  • Rhymes: -iːp
  • (in dialects with meet-meat merger) Homophone: cheep

Noun

cheap (countable and uncountable, plural cheaps)

  1. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
  2. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Price.
  4. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
  5. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

Adjective

cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)

  1. Low or reduced in price.
  2. Of poor quality.
  3. Of little worth.
  4. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
    the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks
  5. (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
  6. (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
    The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
  7. (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.

Usage notes

  • Because cheap is polysemically ambiguous, it is not always clear whether the intended meaning is inexpensive, poorly made, or both; apt word choice, with terms such as good value or shoddy, can clarify.

Synonyms

  • (low/reduced in price): affordable, bargain, frugal, economical, inexpensive, no-frills, priced-off, nickel
  • (of poor quality): flimsy, nickel, shoddy, poorly made

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "low or reduced in price"): dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
  • (antonym(s) of "of low value"): precious, valuable
  • (antonym(s) of "financial markets"): rich

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Fighting Game Terms

Verb

cheap (third-person singular simple present cheaps, present participle cheaping, simple past and past participle cheaped)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.

Usage notes

Use of cheap as a verb has been superseded by cheapen.

Derived terms

  • cheap out

Adverb

cheap (comparative more cheap, superlative most cheap)

  1. Cheaply.
    I bought this cheap in a junk shop.
    The pet shop has some budgerigars going cheap.
    • March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot
      I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible

Anagrams

  • Peach, Pecha, chape, chapé, peach

Chinese

Etymology

From English cheap.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cheap

  1. (Cantonese, of people) stingy; mean; excessively frugal
  2. (Cantonese) cheap; low-priced; bearing poor quality

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /çapˠ/

Noun

cheap m

  1. Lenited form of ceap.

Verb

cheap

  1. past indicative analytic of ceap

Source: wiktionary.org