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

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

T1H4R1E1A1P3

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6-letter words (3 found)

TEPHRA,TERAPH,THREAP,

5-letter words (16 found)

APERT,APTER,EARTH,HATER,HEART,HEPAR,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PHARE,PRATE,RAPHE,RATHE,TAPER,THRAE,TRAPE,

4-letter words (38 found)

APER,ARET,EATH,EPHA,HAET,HARE,HARP,HART,HATE,HEAP,HEAR,HEAT,HEPT,PARE,PART,PATE,PATH,PEAR,PEAT,PERT,PHAT,PRAT,RAPE,RAPT,RATE,RATH,REAP,RHEA,TAHR,TAPE,TARE,TARP,TEAR,TEHR,TEPA,THAE,THAR,TRAP,

3-letter words (36 found)

APE,APT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAP,HAT,HEP,HER,HET,PAH,PAR,PAT,PEA,PEH,PER,PET,PHT,PRE,RAH,RAP,RAT,REH,REP,RET,TAE,TAP,TAR,TEA,THE,

2-letter words (15 found)

AE,AH,AR,AT,EA,EH,ER,ET,HA,HE,PA,PE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 109 words from threap according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of threap

threap

Alternative forms

  • threep, threip, threpe, threeap, thrape, threp, traep, traip, trep, trape

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θɹiːp/
  • Rhymes: -iːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below).

Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.

Noun

threap (plural threaps) (Scotland)

  1. An altercation, quarrel, argument.
  2. An accusation or serious charge.
  3. Stubborn insistence.
  4. A superstition or freet.

Etymology 2

From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þrēa (“correction, punishment”), þrōwian (“to suffer”). More at throe.

Verb

threap (third-person singular simple present threaps, present participle threaping, simple past and past participle threaped or threapt) (Scotland)

  1. (transitive) To contradict.
  2. To denounce.
  3. To cry out; complain; contend.
  4. To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke
    • a. 1529, John Skelton, "The Old Cloak", in Thomas Percy (editor), Percy's Relics, published 1765
      It's not for a man with a woman to threap.
  5. To affirm; to express with conviction.
  6. To cozen or cheat.
  7. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
    He threaped me down that it was so.
Derived terms
  • threaper

Anagrams

  • Tharpe, hapter, pather, tephra, teraph, therap

Source: wiktionary.org