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Is rapture a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rapture is a Scrabble US word. The word rapture is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is rapture a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rapture is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is rapture a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word rapture is a Words With Friends word. The word rapture is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (2 found)

PARTURE,RAPTURE,

6-letter words (6 found)

PARTER,PARURE,PRATER,UPRATE,UPREAR,UPTEAR,

5-letter words (23 found)

APERT,APTER,ARRET,ERUPT,PARER,PAREU,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PRATE,PRUTA,PURER,RAPER,RATER,TAPER,TARRE,TAUPE,TERRA,TRAPE,TRUER,UPTER,URARE,URATE,

4-letter words (35 found)

APER,ARET,PARE,PARR,PART,PATE,PATU,PEAR,PEAT,PERT,PRAT,PRAU,PUER,PURE,PURR,RAPE,RAPT,RARE,RATE,RATU,REAP,REAR,RUER,RURP,TAPE,TAPU,TARE,TARP,TEAR,TEPA,TRAP,TRUE,TURR,UPTA,UREA,

3-letter words (36 found)

APE,APT,ARE,ART,ATE,AUE,EAR,EAT,EAU,ERA,ERR,ETA,PAR,PAT,PEA,PER,PET,PRE,PUR,PUT,RAP,RAT,REP,RET,RUE,RUT,TAE,TAP,TAR,TAU,TEA,TUP,URE,URP,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (14 found)

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

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 117 words from rapture according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rapture

rapture

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹaptʃə/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛptʃɘ/
  • Rhymes: -æptʃə(ɹ)

Noun

rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)

  1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)
  3. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  4. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  5. (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
  6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Derived terms

  • rapture of the deep

Related terms

  • rapt

Translations

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rapture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Verb

rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)

  1. (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  2. (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
  3. (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  4. (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  5. (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

Anagrams

  • parture

Latin

Participle

raptūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of raptūrus

Source: wiktionary.org