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Is crave a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crave is a Scrabble US word. The word crave is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is crave a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crave is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

C3R1A1V4E1

Is crave a Words With Friends word?

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

C4R1A1V5E1

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5-letter words (4 found)

CARVE,CAVER,CRAVE,VAREC,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACER,ACRE,AVER,CARE,CAVE,RACE,RAVE,VARE,VERA,

3-letter words (13 found)

ACE,ARC,ARE,AVE,CAR,EAR,ERA,RAV,REC,REV,VAC,VAE,VAR,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from crave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of crave

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

Definitions and meaning of crave

crave

Etymology

From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: krāv, IPA(key): /kɹeɪv/
  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb

crave (third-person singular simple present craves, present participle craving, simple past and past participle craved)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
  2. (transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

Derived terms

  • craving
  • cravingly
  • cravingness

Translations

Noun

crave (plural craves)

  1. (Scots law) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.

References

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, s. v. “*krabēn-” and “*krēbi-”.

Anagrams

  • Caver, carve, caver, varec

Middle English

Verb

crave

  1. Alternative form of craven

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cra‧ve
  • Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ

Verb

crave

  1. inflection of cravar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Etymology

From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian, from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɾɔːv/

Verb

crave

  1. to beg

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

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