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5-letter words (4 found)

ARKED,DAKER,DRAKE,RAKED,

4-letter words (13 found)

AKED,ARED,DARE,DARK,DEAR,DREK,EARD,KADE,KAED,RADE,RAKE,READ,REAK,

3-letter words (14 found)

AKE,ARD,ARE,ARK,DAE,DAK,EAR,ERA,ERK,KAE,KEA,KED,RAD,RED,

2-letter words (10 found)

AD,AE,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,ER,KA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 42 words from drake according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of drake

drake rdake darke adrke radke ardke drkae rdkae dkrae kdrae rkdae krdae dakre adkre dkare kdare akdre kadre rakde arkde rkade krade akrde karde draek rdaek darek adrek radek ardek dreak rdeak derak edrak redak erdak daerk aderk deark edark aedrk eadrk raedk aredk readk eradk aerdk eardk drkea rdkea dkrea kdrea rkdea krdea dreka rdeka derka edrka redka erdka dkera kdera dekra edkra kedra ekdra rkeda kreda rekda erkda kerda ekrda daker adker dkaer kdaer akder kader daekr adekr deakr edakr aedkr eadkr dkear kdear dekar edkar kedar ekdar akedr kaedr aekdr eakdr keadr ekadr raked arked rkaed kraed akred kared raekd arekd reakd erakd aerkd earkd rkead kread rekad erkad kerad ekrad akerd kaerd aekrd eakrd keard ekard

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Definitions and meaning of drake

drake

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɹeɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

  1. A male duck.
Derived terms
  • duck on drake
  • ducks and drakes
  • sheldrake
  • wood drake
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

  1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
  2. (poetic) A dragon.
  3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
  4. A fiery meteor.
    • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
      The moon’s my constant Mistresse
      & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
      The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
      mee musicke to my sorrowe.
  5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
Synonyms
  • (mayfly): drake fly
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Kader, Radke, daker, darke, raked

Afrikaans

Noun

drake

  1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).

Noun

drāke m

  1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: draak
    • Afrikaans: draak
  • Limburgish: draagk, draogk

Further reading

  • “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdraːk(ə)/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

  1. drake (male duck)
Descendants
  • English: drake
  • Scots: drake
References
  • “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.

Noun

drake (plural drakes or draken)

  1. drake (dragon)
  2. (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
  3. comet, shooting star
Descendants
  • English: drake
References
  • “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • drage

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

  1. a dragon
  2. a kite

References

  • “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • drakje (pre-1901)
  • drakkji, dragje, draga (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²draːçə/, /²draːkə/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

  1. a dragon
  2. a kite
  3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

References

  • “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “drake” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

Noun

drake c

  1. a dragon
  2. a kite
  3. a male duck, drake
  4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension

Anagrams

  • kader

Source: wiktionary.org