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Is peak a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word peak is a Scrabble US word. The word peak is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is peak a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word peak is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

P3E1A1K5

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

PEAK,

3-letter words (7 found)

AKE,APE,KAE,KEA,KEP,PAK,PEA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,EA,KA,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from peak according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of peak

peak epak paek apek eapk aepk peka epka pkea kpea ekpa kepa pake apke pkae kpae akpe kape eakp aekp ekap keap akep kaep

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

Definitions and meaning of peak

peak

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pēk, IPA(key): /piːk/
  • Rhymes: -iːk
  • Homophones: peek, peke, pique

Etymology 1

From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English *peke, *pek (attested in peked, variant of piked), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.

Noun

peak (plural peaks)

  1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
  2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
    Synonyms: apex, pinnacle; see also Thesaurus:apex
  3. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
    Synonyms: summit, top
  4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
  5. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
  6. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
  7. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
  8. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Russian: пик (pik) (in час пик (čas pik))
Translations

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

  1. (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
    2. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
  4. (gender-critical) To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peak.
Synonyms
  • culminate
Translations

Adjective

peak (comparative more peak, superlative most peak)

  1. At the greatest extent; maximum.
  2. (slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
  3. (MLE) Bad.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bad
  4. (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unlucky

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

  1. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
  2. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
  3. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
Related terms
  • peaky

Etymology 3

Noun

peak (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).

Etymology 4

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

  1. Misspelling of pique.

Anagrams

  • Paek, kaep, kape

Basque

Noun

peak

  1. absolutive plural of pe
  2. ergative singular of pe

Source: wiktionary.org