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Is leap a Scrabble word?

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

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Is leap a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (5 found)

LEAP,PALE,PEAL,PELA,PLEA,

3-letter words (9 found)

ALE,ALP,APE,LAP,LEA,LEP,PAL,PEA,PEL,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 22 words from leap according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of leap

leap elap laep alep ealp aelp lepa elpa lpea plea epla pela lape alpe lpae plae aple pale eapl aepl epal peal apel pael

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Definitions and meaning of leap

leap

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lēp, IPA(key): /liːp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /lip/
  • IPA(key): /lɛp/ (obsolete, up to 19th c.)
  • Rhymes: -iːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.

Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).

Verb

leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lopen)

  1. (intransitive) To jump.
    • 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Iliad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
      Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
    • 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
      It is better to leap into the void.
  2. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
  4. (archaic) To copulate with (a human)
  5. (transitive) To cause to leap.
Usage notes

The choice between leapt and leaped is often generally a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English whereas leaped is somewhat more common in American English (although this is not to say that leapt is not used in American English, especially in areas with historical ties to England). According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.

Synonyms
  • (jump from one location to another): bound, hop, jump, spring
  • (jump upwards): bound, hop, jump, spring
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

leap (plural leaps)

  1. The act of leaping or jumping.
    • 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
      Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
  2. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
  3. A group of leopards.
  4. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
    • 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
      That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
  5. (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
    It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
  6. (mining) A fault.
  7. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  8. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
  9. A salmon ladder.
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Translations

Adjective

leap (not comparable)

  1. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lep, from Old English lēap (“basket”), from Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).

Alternative forms

  • leep

Noun

leap (plural leaps)

  1. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
  2. Half a bushel.
Derived terms
  • seed-leap

References

Anagrams

  • Alep, Lape, Peal, e-pal, pale, pale-, peal, pela, plea

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break off, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-, *lewH- (“to cut, divide, separate, release”). Cognate with Old Frisian lēpen (“vessel, grain measure”), Middle Low German lôp and lö̂pen (“measuring vessel, small bushel, grain measure”), Old Norse laupr (“basket”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /læ͜ɑːp/

Noun

lēap m

  1. basket
  2. container, vessel
  3. (measurement) basketful
  4. a weel for catching fish; weely

Inflection

Derived terms

  • sǣdlēap

Related terms

  • loft
  • lyft

Descendants

  • Middle English: lep, lepe, leep
    • English: leap, leep
    • Scots: leip
      • ⇒ Scots: leipie, lippie

Source: wiktionary.org