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Is rack a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word rack is a Scrabble US word. The word rack is worth 10 points in Scrabble:
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Is rack a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word rack is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:
R1A1C3K5
Is rack a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word rack is a Words With Friends word. The word rack is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 7 words from rack according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word rack. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in rack.
From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.
rack (plural racks)
From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).
rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)
In senses “torture” and “suffer pain”, frequently confused with wrack (“destroy”) (more rarely, wrack (“wreckage”)), both as stand-alone verb and in compounds. In most uses, rack is correct, and wrack is incorrect. Etymologically, nerve-racking (“stressful”), pain-racked, and rack one's brain, rack one's brains (“think hard”) are correct, while rack and ruin and storm-racked are incorrect variants of wrack and ruin (“complete destruction”) and storm-wracked (“wrecked by a storm”).
Usage guidance differs: either prefer the etymologically correct term, prefer rack to (archaic) wrack, or use either. The etymologically correct forms are preferred by some style guides, but the unetymological forms are well-established and in wide use, and other style guides simply consider them variant spellings. Other style guides categorically ban wrack as archaic, suggesting modern synonyms like wreck, ruin, or destroy. In some cases style guides are confused by the etymology, or feature unhistorical forms such as nerve-wracking.
This confusion dates to Early Modern English in the 16th century (as in rack and ruin), and is presumably due to the influence of ⟨wr⟩ in words such as wreak, wreck, wrench, etc., which connote discomfort and torment. Formally termed the graphaesthesia of the graphaestheme ⟨wr⟩, since identical sound /r/ to ⟨r⟩; compare with phonaesthesia. Compare rapt/wrapt, and also ⟨gh⟩ as in ghost and ghastly.
From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”)
The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb.
rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)
rack (uncountable)
From Middle English rakken.
rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)
See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb).
rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)
rack (plural racks)
See wreck.
rack (plural racks)
Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of rabbock, an alteration ( + -ock) of rabbit.
rack (plural racks)
rack (uncountable)
Unadapted borrowing from English rack.
rack n (plural rackuri)
rack m (plural racks)
rack n