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Is rasp a Scrabble word?

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

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Is rasp a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1A1S1P3

Is rasp a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word rasp is a Words With Friends word. The word rasp is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

PARS,RAPS,RASP,SPAR,

3-letter words (9 found)

ARS,ASP,PAR,PAS,RAP,RAS,SAP,SAR,SPA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AR,AS,PA,

You can make 16 words from rasp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rasp

rasp arsp rsap srap asrp sarp raps arps rpas pras aprs pars rspa srpa rpsa prsa spra psra aspr sapr apsr pasr spar psar

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Definitions and meaning of rasp

rasp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹæsp/, /ɹɑːsp/
  • Rhymes: -æsp, -ɑːsp

Etymology 1

From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

Noun

rasp (plural rasps)

  1. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
  2. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
Hypernyms
  • file
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)

  1. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
  2. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
  3. To say in a raspy voice.
  4. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
  5. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
Translations

Etymology 2

From raspberry.

Noun

rasp (plural rasps)

  1. (obsolete) The raspberry.
Hypernyms
  • berry

Anagrams

  • APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, sapr-, spar

Dutch

Etymology

16th century, from Middle French raspe, from Old French raspe (“steel file”); see modern French râper (“to grate”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

  1. grater, for example for cheese
  2. surform tool

Derived terms

  • raspen

Descendants

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: raspru
  • → Papiamentu: raspu, rasp

Verb

rasp

  1. inflection of raspen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish raspe (“to grate”), from German.

Noun

rasp m

  1. (cooking) breadcrumbs

See also

  • brauðmylsna (“breadcrumbs”) (non-culinary)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rasp

  1. imperative of raspe

Source: wiktionary.org