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Yes. The word crane is a Scrabble US word. The word crane is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (5 found)

CANER,CRANE,CRENA,NACRE,RANCE,

4-letter words (14 found)

ACER,ACNE,ACRE,ANCE,CANE,CARE,CARN,CRAN,EARN,NARC,NARE,NEAR,RACE,REAN,

3-letter words (14 found)

ACE,ANE,ARC,ARE,CAN,CAR,EAN,EAR,ERA,ERN,NAE,RAN,REC,REN,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AN,AR,EA,EN,ER,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from crane according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of crane

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Definitions and meaning of crane

crane

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹeɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

  1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
    • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
      Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
  2. (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
  3. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
  4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
  5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
  6. (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
Hyponyms
  • Category:Gruidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Derived terms

(Lifting devices):

Related terms
  • cranberry, via German Low German Kraan (“crane”)
Descendants
Translations
See also
  • egret
  • heron
  • stork

Verb

crane (third-person singular simple present cranes, present participle craning, simple past and past participle craned)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To extend (one's neck).
  2. (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
  3. (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium.

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

  1. (obsolete) The cranium.

Etymology 3

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

  1. Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”)

Anagrams

  • Caren, Carne, Cerna, Crean, Nérac, Rance, caner, caren, crena, nacre, nacré, rance, recan

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English cran, *crana.

Alternative forms

  • krane, cranne, craane, crone, craune

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkraːn(ə)/, /kran/

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

  2. crane (bird)
  3. crane (machine)
Derived terms
  • cranage
Descendants
  • English: crane (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: cran
  • Yola: kraanberry, kraaneberry
References
  • “crāne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium.

Alternative forms

  • cranee

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kraːn/

Noun

crane

  2. cranium
Descendants
  • English: crane (obsolete)
References
  • “crāne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

Source: wiktionary.org