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Yes. The word scathe is a Scrabble US word. The word scathe is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word scathe is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (5 found)

CHASTE,CHEATS,SACHET,SCATHE,TACHES,

5-letter words (22 found)

ACHES,ASHET,CASTE,CATES,CESTA,CHASE,CHATS,CHEAT,CHEST,HAETS,HASTE,HATES,HEAST,HEATS,SCATH,SCEAT,TACES,TACHE,TACHS,TEACH,TECHS,THECA,

4-letter words (47 found)

ACES,ACHE,ACTS,AESC,ATES,CASE,CASH,CAST,CATE,CATS,CEAS,CHAS,CHAT,EACH,EAST,EATH,EATS,ECHT,ETAS,ETCH,ETHS,HAES,HAET,HAST,HATE,HATS,HEAT,HEST,HETS,SATE,SCAT,SEAT,SECH,SECT,SETA,SHAT,SHEA,SHET,TACE,TACH,TAES,TASE,TASH,TEAS,TECH,TECS,THAE,

3-letter words (36 found)

ACE,ACH,ACT,AHS,ASH,ATE,ATS,CAT,CHA,CHE,EAS,EAT,ECH,EHS,EST,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAS,HAT,HES,HET,SAC,SAE,SAT,SEA,SEC,SET,SHA,SHE,TAE,TAS,TEA,TEC,TES,THE,

2-letter words (15 found)

AE,AH,AS,AT,CH,EA,EH,ES,ET,HA,HE,SH,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 126 words from scathe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scathe

scathe

Etymology 1

From Middle English scath, scathe [and other forms], from Old Norse skaði (“damage, harm; loss; death; murder”), from Proto-Germanic *skaþô (“damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”, noun) (whence Old English sċeaþa, sċeaþu (“scathe, harm, injury”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (“damage, harm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skeɪð/, /skeɪθ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪð, -eɪθ

Noun

scathe (countable and uncountable, plural scathes) (archaic or British, dialectal)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
  2. (countable) Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.
    Synonym: (very rare) harmer
  3. (countable, Scots law, obsolete) An injury or loss for which compensation is sought in a lawsuit; damage; also, expenses incurred by a claimant; costs.
  4. (uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted.
Alternative forms
  • scath (Britain, dialectal or obsolete)
  • skaith, scaith (Scotland)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • scaddle (Britain, dialectal or obsolete)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English scathen, skathen (“to harm; to cause loss; to assail, attack; to make war on; to defeat”) [and other forms], from Old Norse skaða (“to damage, harm; to hurt, injure”), from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną (“to damage, harm; to injure”) (whence Old English sceaþian, scaþan (“to harm, hurt, injure, scathe”)), from *skaþô (“damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”, noun); see further at etymology 1.

Sense 2 (“to harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source”) appears to derive from Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674), perhaps influenced by scorch: see the 1667 quotation.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /skeɪð/
  • Rhymes: -eɪð

Verb

scathe (third-person singular simple present scathes, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed) (transitive)

  1. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
    1. (specifically, obsolete) To cause monetary loss to (someone).
  2. (by extension, chiefly literary and poetic) To harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast; to scorch; to wither.
  3. (figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • scathed (adjective)
  • scathing (adjective, noun)
  • unscathed
Translations

References

Further reading

  • “scath”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • 'stache, 'taches, Scheat, achest, chaste, chates, cheats, he-cats, sachet, she-cat, stache, taches, thecas

Middle English

Adjective

scathe

  1. Unfortunate, a pity, a shame.
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 445-6.

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