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Is prate a Scrabble word?

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

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Is prate a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is prate a Words With Friends word?

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

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5-letter words (8 found)

APERT,APTER,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PRATE,TAPER,TRAPE,

4-letter words (19 found)

APER,ARET,PARE,PART,PATE,PEAR,PEAT,PERT,PRAT,RAPE,RAPT,RATE,REAP,TAPE,TARE,TARP,TEAR,TEPA,TRAP,

3-letter words (23 found)

APE,APT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,PAR,PAT,PEA,PER,PET,PRE,RAP,RAT,REP,RET,TAE,TAP,TAR,TEA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AR,AT,EA,ER,ET,PA,PE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 62 words from prate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of prate

prate

English

Etymology

From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)

  1. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
    Synonyms: waffle, babble

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
    Synonyms: blabber; see also Thesaurus:prattle, Thesaurus:chatter

Derived terms

  • prate-roast
  • prattle

Translations

References

  • prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
  • prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.

Anagrams

  • Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

prate

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of praten

Anagrams

  • pater

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German praten, compare Swedish prata and Faroese práta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prɑːtɛ/

Verb

prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)

  1. to chat (om / about)

Derived terms

  • pratsom

References

  • “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

prate (Cyrillic spelling прате)

  1. third-person plural present of pratiti

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpraːtə/

Verb

prate

  1. to talk

Inflection

Further reading

  • “prate”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org