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Yes. The word ramp is a Scrabble US word. The word ramp is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (2 found)

PRAM,RAMP,

3-letter words (8 found)

AMP,ARM,MAP,MAR,PAM,PAR,RAM,RAP,

2-letter words (4 found)

AM,AR,MA,PA,

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

All 4 letters words made out of ramp

ramp armp rmap mrap amrp marp rapm arpm rpam pram aprm parm rmpa mrpa rpma prma mpra pmra ampr mapr apmr pamr mpar pmar

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

Definitions and meaning of ramp

ramp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹæmp/
  • Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From French rampe, back-formation of Old French ramper, from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to contract oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną.

Akin to Old English hrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

Noun

ramp (plural ramps)

  2. An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
  3. An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
  4. A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
  5. (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
  6. (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
  7. (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
  8. (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
  9. A scale of values.
  10. A speed bump. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  11. (slang) An act of violent robbery.
  12. (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
  13. (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
  14. (obsolete) A leap or bound.
  15. A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
Derived terms
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Verb

ramp (third-person singular simple present ramps, present participle ramping, simple past and past participle ramped)

  1. To behave violently; to rage.
  2. (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
  3. (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
  6. (obsolete, intransitive) To stand in a rampant position.
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
  8. To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
Derived terms
  • ramper
  • ramp up
Related terms
  • rampage
  • rampant
Translations

Etymology 2

See ramson. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

ramp (plural ramps)

  1. An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
  2. (Appalachia) A promiscuous man or woman.
  3. (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
Synonyms
  • (Allium tricoccum): ramps, rams, ramson, ramsons, wild leek
Translations

See also

  • buckram

Further reading

  • Allium tricoccum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Allium tricoccum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Allium tricoccum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • ramp at USDA Plants database

Anagrams

  • MRAP, PRAM, parm, pram

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ramp (“misfortune”). Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”). In the 19th century, the grammatical gender of the word was a matter of debate. It was finally standardized as feminine, departing from its historical masculine gender.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɑmp/
  • Hyphenation: ramp
  • Rhymes: -ɑmp

Noun

ramp f (plural rampen, diminutive rampje n)

  1. disaster, catastrophe
    Mensen wensen geluk en welvaart en verafschuwen ongeluk en rampen
    People wish happiness and prosperity and abhor mishap and disasters
  2. an accident
Synonyms
  • catastrofe
  • ongeluk
Derived terms
  • kernramp
  • olieramp
  • rampspoed
  • ramptoerisme

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rampe, back-formation of Old French ramper, from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to contract oneself”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɑmp/
  • Hyphenation: ramp
  • Rhymes: -ɑmp

Noun

ramp f (plural rampen, diminutive rampje n)

  1. a ramp
  2. a driveway
Synonyms
  • (ramp): helling
  • (driveway): oprit
Derived terms
  • oprijramp

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English ramp, from French rampe.

Pronunciation

  • (Netherlands) IPA(key): /rɛmp/, [ɹæmp]
  • Hyphenation: ramp
  • Rhymes: -ɛmp

Noun

ramp m (plural ramps, diminutive rampje n)

  1. (skating) A construction to do skating tricks, usually in the form of one half of a pipe, a half-pipe.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -am̥p

Noun

ramp

  1. indefinite accusative singular of rampur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”).

Noun

ramp m

  1. epilepsy, (human) cramp
  2. bird claw disease, bird cramp
  3. disaster, misfortune

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: ramp

Further reading

  • “ramp”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Swedish

Noun

ramp c

  1. a ramp (inclined surface connecting two levels)
  2. a row of lights (especially at the front of a stage, i.e. footlights)
  3. (by extension) (the front of) a stage
  4. a missile launch platform

Declension

Derived terms

  • rampfeber (“stage fright”)
  • rampljus (“spotlight, limelight”)

References

  • ramp in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • ramp in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • ramp in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org