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Is neap a Scrabble word?

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

N1E1A1P3

Is neap a Scrabble UK word?

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

N1E1A1P3

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Yes. The word neap is a Words With Friends word. The word neap is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

NAPE,NEAP,PANE,PEAN,

3-letter words (9 found)

ANE,APE,EAN,NAE,NAP,NEP,PAN,PEA,PEN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AN,EA,EN,NA,NE,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of neap

neap enap naep anep eanp aenp nepa enpa npea pnea epna pena nape anpe npae pnae apne pane eapn aepn epan pean apen paen

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Definitions and meaning of neap

neap

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nēp, IPA(key): /niːp/
  • Rhymes: -iːp

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”).

Noun

neap (plural neaps)

  1. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

Etymology 2

From Middle English neep, from Old English nēp (“scant, lacking”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *nōpiz (“narrow”). Found especially in Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”, literally “low tide”). Compare Norwegian dialectal nøpen (“scarce, scant, barely enough”).

Adjective

neap (not comparable)

  1. (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
  2. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
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Verb

neap (third-person singular simple present neaps, present participle neaping, simple past and past participle neaped)

  1. (transitive) To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
  2. (intransitive) To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.

Noun

neap (plural neaps)

  1. A neap tide.

Etymology 3

Noun

neap (plural neaps)

  1. Alternative form of neep

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Anagrams

  • -pnea, NAPE, Pena, nape, pane, pané, pean

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Noun

neap

  1. Alternative form of neape
    • GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Nipple is a diminutive of nape or neap.

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 59

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