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Is flake a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word flake is a Scrabble US word. The word flake is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is flake a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word flake is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FLAKE,

4-letter words (9 found)

ALEF,FAKE,FEAL,FLAK,FLEA,KALE,LAKE,LEAF,LEAK,

3-letter words (12 found)

AKE,ALE,ALF,ELF,ELK,FAE,KAE,KAF,KEA,KEF,LEA,LEK,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AL,EA,EF,EL,FA,FE,KA,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 5 letters words made out of flake

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Definitions and meaning of flake

flake

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fleɪk/
  • Hyphenation: flake
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage.

Noun

flake (plural flakes)

  1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
    Synonym: (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) fleak
  2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
  3. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  4. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  6. A flat turn or tier of rope.
  7. (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
  8. A wire rack for drying fish.
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Verb

flake (third-person singular simple present flakes, present participle flaking, simple past and past participle flaked)

  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
    Synonym: (obsolete, rare) fleak
  2. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  3. (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
  4. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  5. (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
  6. To lay out on a flake for drying.
Derived terms
  • beflake
  • flakeable
  • flake off
  • flake out
Translations

Etymology 2

A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.

Noun

flake (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Dogfish.
  2. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.

Etymology 3

Compare Icelandic flaki, Icelandic fleki, Danish flage, Dutch vlaak.

Noun

flake (plural flakes)

  1. (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  3. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  4. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)

References

  • “flake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • fleak

Source: wiktionary.org