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Is crayfish a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crayfish is a Scrabble US word. The word crayfish is worth 19 points in Scrabble:

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Is crayfish a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crayfish is a Scrabble UK word and has 19 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

CRAYFISH,

7-letter words (2 found)

SACRIFY,SCARIFY,

6-letter words (3 found)

CHAIRS,RACHIS,SHARIF,

5-letter words (25 found)

ARCHI,ARISH,CHAIR,CHAIS,CHARS,CHARY,CHAYS,CHIAS,CRASH,CRAYS,CRIAS,FAIRS,FAIRY,FARCI,FARCY,FASCI,FIARS,FISHY,FRAYS,HAIRS,HAIRY,SCARF,SCARY,SCRAY,SYRAH,

4-letter words (61 found)

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3-letter words (54 found)

ACH,AHI,AHS,AIR,AIS,ARC,ARF,ARS,ARY,ASH,AYS,CAF,CAR,CAY,CHA,CHI,CIS,CRY,FAH,FAR,FAS,FAY,FIR,FRA,FRY,HAS,HAY,HIC,HIS,ICH,ICY,IFS,ISH,RAH,RAI,RAS,RAY,RHY,RIA,RIF,RYA,SAC,SAI,SAR,SAY,SHA,SHY,SIC,SIF,SIR,SRI,YAH,YAR,YAS,

2-letter words (15 found)

AH,AI,AR,AS,AY,CH,FA,FY,HA,HI,IF,IS,SH,SI,YA,

You can make 161 words from crayfish according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crayfish

crayfish

Alternative forms

  • crawfish; craifish (obsolete), crafish, crefish (obsolete); crevis, crevyssh (obsolete)

Etymology

Alteration (by folk etymology, influenced by fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”). Akin to Old High German krebiz ("edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs (“crab”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪˌfɪʃ/

Noun

crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish)

  1. Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
    1. (New England, Pennsylvania, Upper Midwestern US) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
  3. (Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
  4. (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).

Usage notes

Within the US, the term crayfish predominates in the region of New England and in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In much of the United States—in the South, especially in Louisiana and Texas; in the Midwest and in the West—crawfish predominates. In a belt stretching across Kentucky through Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and in Oregon and northern California, the term crawdad predominates.

Synonyms

  • (freshwater crustaceans): crawdad, crawldad, crawfish, crawlfish, mudbug, yabby (Australia)
  • (slipper lobster): Moreton Bay bug (Australia)

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Verb

crayfish (third-person singular simple present crayfishes, present participle crayfishing, simple past and past participle crayfished)

  1. To catch crayfish.
  2. Alternative form of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)

Translations

See also

  • lobster
  • prawn
  • shrimp
  • yabby

References

Further reading

  • crayfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “crayfish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Source: wiktionary.org