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Is crawl a Scrabble word?

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

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Is crawl a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

CRAWL,

4-letter words (3 found)

CARL,CLAW,CRAW,

3-letter words (10 found)

ARC,AWL,CAL,CAR,CAW,LAC,LAR,LAW,RAW,WAR,

2-letter words (4 found)

AL,AR,AW,LA,

You can make 18 words from crawl according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of crawl

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Definitions and meaning of crawl

crawl

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: krôl, IPA(key): /kɹɔːl/
  • (General American) enPR: krôl, IPA(key): /kɹɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) enPR: kräl, IPA(key): /kɹɑl/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: krôl, IPA(key): /kɹoːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

Verb

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

  1. (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
  2. (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
  3. (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
  4. (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
  5. (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
  6. (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
  7. (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
  8. (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
  9. (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: kraulen
Translations

Noun

crawl (plural crawls)

  1. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
  2. The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
  3. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
  4. (figurative) A very slow pace.
  5. (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
      The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Portuguese: crol, crawl
Translations

Etymology 2

Compare kraal.

Noun

crawl (plural crawls)

  1. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English crawl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁol/

Noun

crawl m (plural crawls)

  1. crawl (swimming stroke)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English crawl.

Noun

crawl m

  1. crawl (swimming stroke)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English crawl.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: crawl

Noun

crawl m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of crol

Derived terms

  • crawlista

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English crawl.

Noun

crawl c (uncountable)

  1. crawl; swimming stroke

Declension

Related terms

  • crawla
  • crawlare

References

  • crawl in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • crawl in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org