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Is raca a Scrabble word?

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

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

RACA,

3-letter words (3 found)

ARC,CAA,CAR,

2-letter words (2 found)

AA,AR,

You can make 6 words from raca according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of raca

raca arca rcaa craa acra cara raac arac raac arac aarc aarc rcaa craa raca arca cara acra acar caar aacr aacr caar acar

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

Definitions and meaning of raca

raca

Latin

Alternative forms

  • racha, racca

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥακά (rhaká), from Aramaic רֵיקָא (rēqā, “worthless person”) or Classical Syriac ܪܝܩܐ (rēqā, “vanity”).

Interjection

raca (Ecclesiastical Latin)

  1. idiot!, putz!
    • 4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Matthew 5:22:
    • 397 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus (translator), Instituta Monachorum, question 145, original author: Basil of Caesarea, in Patrologia Latina (volume 103), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1851, column 538:

Noun

raca n (indeclinable) (Ecclesiastical Latin, hapax)

  1. (metonymically) the act of calling someone ‘raca’.
    • c. 393 CE, Saint Jerome, Against Jovinianus 2.31, in Patrologia Latina (volume 23), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1883, column 342:
      Dē eō autem quod nīteris approbāre, convīcium et homicīdium, raca et adulterium, et ōtiōsum sermōnem, et impietātem ūnō suppliciō repēnsārī, […]
      As to the fact that you argue that an insult and a murder, calling somebody a putz and adultery, idle talk and impiety should be rewarded with the same punishment, […]

References

  • “racha” in volume 11, part 2, column 18, line 63 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“rake”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑ.kɑ/

Noun

raca m

  1. rake
    Synonym: racu

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian razzo, from Latin radius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.t͡sa/
  • Rhymes: -at͡sa
  • Syllabification: ra‧ca

Noun

raca f

  1. flare
  2. firework
    Synonyms: fajerwerk, sztuczne ognie

Declension

Further reading

  • raca in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • raca in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovene

Etymology

Possibly from Albanian rosë.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ràːt͡sa/

Noun

ráca f

  1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

Inflection

Further reading

  • “raca”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾa.t͡ʃa]

Verb

raca

  1. (stative) to be torn

Conjugation

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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