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Is deck a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word deck is a Scrabble US word. The word deck is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is deck a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word deck is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

D2E1C3K5

Is deck a Words With Friends word?

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

DECK,

3-letter words (1 found)

KED,

2-letter words (2 found)

DE,ED,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 5 words from deck according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of deck

deck edck dcek cdek ecdk cedk dekc edkc dkec kdec ekdc kedc dcke cdke dkce kdce ckde kcde eckd cekd ekcd kecd cked kced

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

Definitions and meaning of deck

deck

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛk
  • Homophone: deque

Etymology 1

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

Noun

deck (plural decks)

  1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  2. (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
  3. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  4. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
  5. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
    Synonym: library
  6. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
    Hypernym: headline (sometimes coordinate)
    Coordinate term: strapline
  7. A set of slides for a presentation.
  8. (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
  9. (obsolete) A heap or store.
  10. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
  11. (colloquial) The floor.
  12. (theater) The stage.
  13. Short for tape deck.
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Verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

  1. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
    Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
  3. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dekken, from Middle Dutch dekken (“to cover”), from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną (“to roof; cover”).

Verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

  1. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
  2. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
  3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
Usage notes
  • See deck out
Derived terms
  • bedeck
Translations

Central Franconian

Etymology 1

From Middle High German dicke, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dek/

Adjective

deck (masculine decke, feminine and plural decke or deck, comparative decker, superlative et deckste)

  1. (of things) thick
  2. (of living beings) fat

Adverb

deck (comparative decker, superlative et decks)

  1. (archaic in some dialects) often, frequently
    Synonyms: (now predominant) off, oft
Alternative forms
  • decks (both forms used alongside)
  • dock, docks; döck, döcks (Eifel, northern Westerwald)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛk/

Verb

deck

  1. inflection of decke:
    1. singular imperative
    2. third-person singular present
Alternative forms
  • däck (variant spelling)

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dɛk]

Verb

deck

  1. singular imperative of decken
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of decken

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English deck.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

deck m (invariable)

  1. tape deck

Luxembourgish

Verb

deck

  1. second-person singular imperative of decken

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English deck.

Noun

deck n (plural deckuri)

  1. tape deck

Declension


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