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Is lip a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lip is a Scrabble US word. The word lip is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (1 found)

LIP,

2-letter words (2 found)

LI,PI,

You can make 3 words from lip according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of lip

lip ilp lpi pli ipl pil

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Definitions and meaning of lip

lip

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).

Cognate with West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lĭp, IPA(key): /lɪp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)

  2. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
    Synonym: labium
  3. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
    Synonym: labium
  4. (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
    Synonyms: edge, rim, spout
  5. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
    Synonyms: backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness, insolence
  6. The edge of a high spot of land.
  7. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
  8. (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
  9. (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
  10. (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
  11. (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
  12. (colloquial) Short for lipstick.

Meronyms

  • (fleshy protrusion): philtrum, Cupid's bow, vermilion, commissure

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Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)

  1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
  2. (transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
  4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
  5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
    • 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242,[11]
      It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.
  6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
  7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
  8. (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
  9. (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Translations

Anagrams

  • LPI, PIL

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lip, from Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ləp/

Noun

lip (plural lippe, diminutive lippie)

  1. lip (part of the mouth)
    Die slang het in my lip gebyt! ― The snake has bitten me in my lip!

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪp]

Noun

lip

  1. genitive plural of lípa

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪp/
  • Hyphenation: lip
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

lip f (plural lippen, diminutive lipje n)

  1. lip (part of the mouth)
  2. lip (of a container)

Derived terms

  • bovenlip
  • breedlipneushoorn
  • hazenlip
  • lipklank
  • liplezen
  • lippen
  • lippendienst
  • lippenrood
  • lippenstift
  • lipvis
  • loslippig
  • onderlip
  • puntlipneushoorn
  • schaamlip

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: lip
  • Negerhollands: lip, lepp
  • → Papiamentu: lep, lip, leep

Anagrams

  • pil

Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

lip ? (plural lips)

  1. lip

Hokkien

Lower Sorbian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lě̑pъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lip/, [lʲip]

Noun

lip m inan (diminutive lipk)

  1. glue, birdlime
Declension
Derived terms
  • lipaś

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lip

  1. second-person singular imperative of lipaś
Alternative forms
  • lipaj

Further reading

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

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lip/
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Syllabification: lip

Noun

lip f

  1. genitive plural of lipa

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • lȇp (Ekavian)
  • lijȇp (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpъ.

Adjective

lip (Cyrillic spelling лип)

  1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) nice, pretty
    • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transribed from Glagolitic original):

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English leaf.

Noun

lip

  1. leaf

Source: wiktionary.org