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Is gape a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gape is a Scrabble US word. The word gape is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

G2A1P3E1

Is gape a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gape is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

G2A1P3E1

Is gape a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gape is a Words With Friends word. The word gape is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

GAPE,PAGE,PEAG,

3-letter words (6 found)

AGE,APE,GAE,GAP,PEA,PEG,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AG,EA,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from gape according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gape

gape agpe gpae pgae apge page gaep agep geap egap aegp eagp gpea pgea gepa egpa pega epga apeg paeg aepg eapg peag epag

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

Definitions and meaning of gape

gape

Etymology

Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪp/
  • Rhymes: -eɪp

Verb

gape (third-person singular simple present gapes, present participle gaping, simple past and past participle gaped)

  1. (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
    • 1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467,
      She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;
  2. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
  3. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
  4. (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
  5. (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.

Translations

Noun

gape (countable and uncountable, plural gapes)

  1. (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
  2. A large opening.
  3. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
  4. The width of an opening.
  5. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • PAGE, Page, page, peag

Dutch

Verb

gape

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of gapen

Anagrams

  • page

Northern Sotho

Adverb

gape

  1. again

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gapa.

Verb

gape (imperative gap, present tense gaper, passive gapes, simple past gapa or gapte, past participle gapa or gapt, present participle gapende)

  1. to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)
    gap opp! - open wide! (e.g. at the dentist)

References

  • “gape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • gapa

Etymology

From Old Norse gapa.

Verb

gape (present tense gapar or gaper, past tense gapa or gapte, past participle gapa or gapt, passive infinitive gapast, present participle gapande, imperative gap)

  1. to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)

References

  • “gape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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