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Yes. The word crack is a Scrabble US word. The word crack is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word crack is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

CRACK,

4-letter words (3 found)

CACK,CARK,RACK,

3-letter words (3 found)

ARC,ARK,CAR,

2-letter words (2 found)

AR,KA,

You can make 9 words from crack according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of crack

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Definitions and meaning of crack

crack

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kɹæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk
  • Homophone: craic

Etymology 1

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).

Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).

Verb

crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)

  2. (intransitive) To form cracks.
  3. (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
  4. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
  5. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
  6. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
  7. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
  8. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
  9. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
  10. (intransitive, LGBT, slang) To realize that one is transgender.
  11. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
  12. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
  13. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
  14. (transitive) To open slightly.
  15. (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
  16. (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
  17. (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
  18. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
  19. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
  20. (transitive) (chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
  21. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
  22. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
  23. (obsolete) To brag; to boast.
  24. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
  25. (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
Derived terms
Related terms
  • crazed (exhibiting fine-line cracks)
Translations
See also
  • hack

Noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

  2. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
  3. A narrow opening.
  4. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
  6. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
    1. (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
      kitty crack ― catnip
  7. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
  8. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
  9. A sharp, resounding blow.
  10. (informal) An attempt at something.
  11. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
  12. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
    Synonym: buttcrack
  14. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
    • 2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
      "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
  15. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
  16. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
  17. (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
    Coordinate term: slick
  18. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
  19. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
  20. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
  22. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
  23. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
    Synonym: crackpot
  24. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
  25. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
  26. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
  27. (slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Usage notes
  • (Scots language, common in lowland Scotland and Ulster, conviviality): In recent decades, the word has been adopted into Gaelic as craic.
Synonyms
  • (vulgar: space between the buttocks): bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US)
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Of unknown origin.

Adjective

crack (not comparable)

  1. Highly trained and competent.
  2. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Derived terms
  • crack shot, crackshot
  • crack train
  • crack troops
Related terms
  • crackerjack

Noun

crack (plural cracks)

  2. (obsolete) One who excels; the best.
Descendants
  • → Catalan: crac
  • → French: crack
  • → German: Crack
  • → Portuguese: craque
  • → Spanish: crack
Translations

Further reading

  • “crack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “crack”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “crack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Finnish

Etymology

From English crack.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkræk/, [ˈkræk]

Noun

crack

  1. crack (variety of cocaine)

Declension

Further reading

  • “crack”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English crack.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁak/

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. (colloquial) champion, ace, expert
    Synonyms: champion, as
    C’est un crack en informatique. ― He/she is a computer whiz.
  2. (computing) crack (program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions)

Noun

crack f (uncountable)

  1. crack cocaine

Further reading

  • “crack”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English crack.

Pronunciation

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. Alternative form of craque

Derived terms

  • crackar

Further reading

  • “crack” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾak/ [ˈkɾak]
  • Rhymes: -ak

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English crack.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. crack cocaine
  2. champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude (outstanding person)
Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French krach, from German Krach.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. Misspelling of crac.

Further reading

  • “crack”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English crack.

Noun

crack n or c

  1. (uncountable, colloquial) crack cocaine

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org