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Is grate a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grate is a Scrabble US word. The word grate is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is grate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grate is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Yes. The word grate is a Words With Friends word. The word grate is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (6 found)

GATER,GRATE,GREAT,RETAG,TARGE,TERGA,

4-letter words (15 found)

AGER,AREG,ARET,GARE,GART,GATE,GEAR,GEAT,GERT,GETA,GRAT,RAGE,RATE,TARE,TEAR,

3-letter words (23 found)

AGE,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERG,ETA,GAE,GAR,GAT,GER,GET,RAG,RAT,REG,RET,TAE,TAG,TAR,TEA,TEG,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AG,AR,AT,EA,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 55 words from grate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of grate

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Definitions and meaning of grate

grate

Pronunciation

  • enPR: grāt, IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Homophone: great

Etymology 1

From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin grāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.

Noun

grate (plural grates)

  1. A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
  2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
  3. (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
Synonyms
  • grill
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.

Etymology 2

From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

  1. (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
  2. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
    • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.
  3. (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
  4. (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
    • 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon'
      one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.
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Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin grātus (“agreeable”).

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

  1. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

Etymology 4

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

  1. Obsolete spelling of great
    • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
      He promisd her a grate reward

References

Anagrams

  • 'Gater, Gater, Greta, ergat-, great, great-, retag, targe, terga

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡra.te/
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: grà‧te

Adjective

grate f

  1. feminine plural of grato

Anagrams

  • terga

Latin

Etymology

From grātus (“agreeable”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.teː/, [ˈɡräːt̪eː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.te/, [ˈɡräːt̪e]

Adverb

grātē (comparative grātius, superlative grātissimē)

  1. gladly, willingly
  2. gratefully, thankfully

Related terms

References

  • “grate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “grate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Verb

grate

  1. inflection of gratar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English grote.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɾɔːt/

Noun

grate

  1. groat (old coin)

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43

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