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Is crater a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crater is a Scrabble US word. The word crater is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is crater a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crater is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

C3R1A1T1E1R1

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6-letter words (4 found)

ARRECT,CARTER,CRATER,TRACER,

5-letter words (14 found)

ARRET,CARER,CARET,CARTE,CATER,CRARE,CRATE,RACER,RATER,REACT,RECTA,TARRE,TERRA,TRACE,

4-letter words (15 found)

ACER,ACRE,ARET,CARE,CARR,CART,CATE,CERT,RACE,RARE,RATE,REAR,TACE,TARE,TEAR,

3-letter words (20 found)

ACE,ACT,ARC,ARE,ART,ATE,CAR,CAT,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERR,ETA,RAT,REC,RET,TAE,TAR,TEA,TEC,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AR,AT,EA,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 63 words from crater according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crater

crater

Etymology 1

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

crater (plural craters)

  1. (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
    Synonym: astrobleme
  2. (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
  3. The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
  4. (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
  5. (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
Hyponyms
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Translations
See also
  • machtesh
  • caldera

Verb

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

  1. To form craters in a surface.
  2. (figurative) To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
    Synonyms: implode, hollow out, tank
  3. (snowboarding) To crash or fall.
  4. (video games) To die from fall damage.
Translations

References

  • crater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeː.təɹ/

Noun

crater (plural craters)

  1. (Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
Usage notes

This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing.

Anagrams

  • Carter, arrect, carter, tracer

Latin

Alternative forms

  • crātēra
  • crēterra

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkraː.teːr/, [ˈkräːt̪eːr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkra.ter/, [ˈkräːt̪er]

Noun

crātēr m (genitive crātēris or crātēros); third declension

  1. A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
  2. The opening of a volcano.

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).

Descendants

  • → English: crater
  • → Finnish: krateeri
  • → French: cratère
  • → German: Krater
  • → Hungarian: kráter
  • → Serbo-Croatian: кра́тер
  • → Russian: кра́тер (kráter)
  • → Sicilian: cratiri
  • → Spanish: cráter
  • → Catalan: cràter
  • → Galician: cráter

References

  • “crater”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “crater”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “crater”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “crater”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “crater”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cratère.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkra.ter/

Noun

crater n (plural cratere)

  1. crater

Declension

Further reading

  • crater in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Source: wiktionary.org