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Is raisin a Scrabble word?

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

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Is raisin a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

RAISIN,

5-letter words (5 found)

AIRNS,NARIS,RAINS,RANIS,SARIN,

4-letter words (19 found)

AINS,AIRN,AIRS,ANIS,ARIS,INIA,IRIS,ISNA,NISI,RAIN,RAIS,RANI,RIAS,RINS,SAIN,SAIR,SARI,SIRI,SNAR,

3-letter words (20 found)

AIN,AIR,AIS,ANI,ANS,ARS,INS,NAS,NIS,RAI,RAN,RAS,RIA,RIN,SAI,SAN,SAR,SIN,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (8 found)

AI,AN,AR,AS,IN,IS,NA,SI,

You can make 53 words from raisin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of raisin

raisin

Etymology

From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪzən/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːzən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪzən

Noun

raisin (plural raisins)

  1. A dried grape.

Usage notes

In the USA, raisin refers to any kind of dried grape. In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, raisin is reserved for the dried large dark grape, with sultana meaning the dried large white grape, and currant meaning the dried small Black Corinth grape.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Japanese: レーズン (rēzun)

Translations

Verb

raisin (third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined)

  1. (intransitive) Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
  2. (transitive) To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.
  3. (transitive) To add raisins to.
  4. (by extension, transitive) To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To shrivel.
  6. (transitive) To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.
  7. (transitive) To cause to have wrinkles.
  8. (intransitive) To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Iranis, Sirian

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French raisin, from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ.zɛ̃/, /ʁe.zɛ̃/

Noun

raisin m (plural raisins)

  1. grape
  2. a size of paper (having such a watermark)
  3. a bright red lipstick

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “raisin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • resin, resyn, reysyn, roisin
  • raisine, raysine, reisine (feminine)

Etymology

From Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation

  • (archaic) IPA(key): /rai̯ˈzin(ə)/
  • (classical) IPA(key): /rei̯ˈzin(ə)/, (northern) /roi̯ˈzin(ə)/

Noun

raisin oblique singular, m (oblique plural raisins, nominative singular raisins, nominative plural raisin)

  1. grape
  2. cluster or bunch of grapes
  3. raisin (dried fruit)

Descendants

  • French: raisin
  • Norman: raisin, rouaisin
  • Picard: rosin, reusin, rojin, roisin, rouaisin
  • Walloon: reujin, rouaijin, roijin

Borrowings:

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (raisin, supplement)
  • raisin on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “racēmus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 12

Source: wiktionary.org