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Is snake a Scrabble word?

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

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Is snake a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (4 found)

KANES,SKEAN,SNAKE,SNEAK,

4-letter words (16 found)

AKES,ANES,EANS,KAES,KANE,KANS,KEAS,KENS,NAES,NEKS,SAKE,SANE,SANK,SEAN,SENA,SKEN,

3-letter words (19 found)

AKE,ANE,ANS,ASK,EAN,EAS,ENS,KAE,KAS,KEA,KEN,NAE,NAS,NEK,SAE,SAN,SEA,SEN,SKA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AN,AS,EA,EN,ES,KA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 49 words from snake according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of snake

snake nsake sanke asnke naske anske snkae nskae sknae ksnae nksae knsae sakne askne skane ksane aksne kasne nakse ankse nkase knase aknse kanse snaek nsaek sanek asnek nasek ansek sneak nseak senak esnak nesak ensak saenk asenk seank esank aesnk easnk naesk anesk neask enask aensk eansk snkea nskea sknea ksnea nksea knsea sneka nseka senka esnka neska enska skena ksena sekna eskna kesna eksna nkesa knesa neksa enksa kensa eknsa saken asken skaen ksaen aksen kasen saekn asekn seakn esakn aeskn easkn skean ksean sekan eskan kesan eksan akesn kaesn aeksn eaksn keasn ekasn nakes ankes nkaes knaes aknes kanes naeks aneks neaks enaks aenks eanks nkeas kneas nekas enkas kenas eknas akens kaens aekns eakns keans ekans

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

Definitions and meaning of snake

snake

Alternative forms

  • (internet slang, childish, jocular) snek

Etymology

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“snake”) (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived via Proto-Germanic *snakô from Proto-Germanic *snakaną (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “snake”)). Doublet of nāga.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: snāk, IPA(key): /sneɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

snake (plural snakes)

  1. A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
    Synonyms: joe blake, serpent
  2. A treacherous person; a rat.
  3. A person who acts deceitfully for social gain.
  4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
    Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake
  5. A tool to aid cable pulling.
    Synonym: wirepuller
  6. (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
  7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
    Synonym: trouser snake
  8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
  9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
  10. (MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant
  11. (finance, historical) Short for snake in the tunnel.
  12. Short for black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Maori: neke
  • → Sranan Tongo: sneki

Translations

Verb

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

  1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
    Synonyms: slither, wind
  2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
  3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
  4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
    • November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson
  5. (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
  6. (MLE) To inform; to rat.

Translations

See also

  • anguine

Further reading

  • snake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, sneak

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • snak
  • snaca (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English snaca, from Proto-West Germanic *snakō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsnaːk(ə)/

Noun

snake (plural snakes or snaken or snake)

  1. snake
  2. serpent

Descendants

  • English: snake (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: snake

References

  • “snāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Source: wiktionary.org