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Is gulp a Scrabble word?

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

G2U1L1P3

Is gulp a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2U1L1P3

Is gulp a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gulp is a Words With Friends word. The word gulp is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

GULP,PLUG,

3-letter words (6 found)

GUL,GUP,LUG,PLU,PUG,PUL,

2-letter words (3 found)

GU,UG,UP,

You can make 11 words from gulp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gulp

gulp uglp glup lgup ulgp lugp gupl ugpl gpul pgul upgl pugl glpu lgpu gplu pglu lpgu plgu ulpg lupg uplg pulg lpug plug

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

Definitions and meaning of gulp

gulp

Etymology

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).

Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʌlp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌlp

Noun

gulp (plural gulps)

  1. The usual amount swallowed.
    Synonym: slug
  2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
  3. (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.

Translations

Verb

gulp (third-person singular simple present gulps, present participle gulping, simple past and past participle gulped)

  1. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drink
  2. To react nervously by swallowing.

Derived terms

  • gulp down
  • gulp up

Translations

Interjection

gulp

  1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.
    Synonym: ulp

Further reading

  • swallowing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  • “gulp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • plug

Dutch

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from glop (“hole, opening”); also compare gleuf (“slot, slit”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣʏlp/
  • Hyphenation: gulp
  • Rhymes: -ʏlp

Noun

gulp f (plural gulpen, diminutive gulpje n)

  1. fly; opening in a man's pants to facilitate relieving himself

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: gulp
  • → Papiamentu: hòlpis (Aruba), hòlpi

Further reading

  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “gulp2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Swedish

Interjection

gulp

  1. gulp (expresses fear)

Turkmen

Noun

gulp

  1. lock

Source: wiktionary.org