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Is grab a Scrabble word?

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

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Is grab a Scrabble UK word?

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

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

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4-letter words (3 found)

BRAG,GARB,GRAB,

3-letter words (7 found)

ARB,BAG,BAR,BRA,GAB,GAR,RAG,

2-letter words (4 found)

AB,AG,AR,BA,

You can make 14 words from grab according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grab

grab rgab garb agrb ragb argb grba rgba gbra bgra rbga brga gabr agbr gbar bgar abgr bagr rabg arbg rbag brag abrg barg

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

Definitions and meaning of grab

grab

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹæb/
  • Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch grabben (“to grab”) or Middle Low German grabben (“to snap”), from Old Dutch or Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *graban, from Proto-Germanic *grab-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-.

See also Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇā́ti), गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (garəβ, “to seize”)). Cognate with Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”), Middle English grappen (“to feel with the hands; grope”), Macedonian грабне (grabne, “to snatch”), Bulgarian грабя (grabja, “to rob, to grab”).

Verb

grab (third-person singular simple present grabs, present participle grabbing, simple past and past participle grabbed)

  1. (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
  2. (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
  3. To restrain someone; to arrest.
  4. (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
    How does that idea grab you?
  5. (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take.
  6. (informal) To consume something quickly.
  7. To take the opportunity of.
Translations

Noun

grab (countable and uncountable, plural grabs)

  1. (countable) A sudden snatch at something.
  2. (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
  3. (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
    1. A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
  4. (countable, media) A sound bite.
  5. (obsolete) That which is seized.
  6. (uncountable) A simple card game.
Synonyms
  • catch
  • clutch
  • grasp
  • seize
  • snatch
Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb) and Hindi ghurb?: crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

grab (plural grabs)

  1. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
Alternative forms
  • gurab

Further reading

  • Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “GRAB”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 391.

Anagrams

  • ARGB, brag, garb

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *grabrъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡrap]

Noun

grab m inan

  1. hornbeam (tree of genus Carpinus)

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “grab”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “grab”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • grap

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

Compare Old Saxon graf (Low German Graf, Graff), Dutch graf, Old English græf (English grave), Old Frisian gref (West Frisian grêf), Old Norse grǫf (Danish grav, Icelandic gröf), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 (graba).

Noun

grab n

  1. grave
  2. tomb

Descendants

  • Middle High German: grap
    • Central Franconian: Grav, Jrav
      Hunsrik: Graab
      Luxembourgish: Graf
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: grap
    • East Central German:
      Vilamovian: graob, grob
    • East Franconian:
    • German: Grab
    • Rhine Franconian: Grab
      Frankfurterisch: [krɑːp], (plural) [kʀεːvæ̆]
    • Yiddish: גרוב (grub)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrap/
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Syllabification: grab
  • Homophones: Grab, grap

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grabrъ.

Noun

grab m inan (related adjective grabowy)

  1. hornbeam (any tree of the genus Carpinus)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

grab f

  1. genitive plural of graba

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

grab

  1. second-person singular imperative of grabić

Further reading

  • grab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • grab in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grabrъ, from Proto-Indo-European *grābʰ-.

Noun

grab m (Cyrillic spelling граб)

  1. hornbeam

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org