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Is wipe a Scrabble word?

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

W4I1P3E1

Is wipe a Scrabble UK word?

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

W4I1P3E1

Is wipe a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word wipe is a Words With Friends word. The word wipe is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4I1P4E1

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4-letter words (1 found)

WIPE,

3-letter words (2 found)

PEW,PIE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EW,PE,PI,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from wipe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wipe

wipe iwpe wpie pwie ipwe piwe wiep iwep weip ewip iewp eiwp wpei pwei wepi ewpi pewi epwi ipew piew iepw eipw peiw epiw

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

Definitions and meaning of wipe

wipe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waɪp/
  • Rhymes: -aɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.

Verb

wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped)

  1. (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
  2. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
  3. (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
  4. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
  6. (transitive, computing) To erase.
  7. (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
  8. (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
  9. (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
  10. (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
Translations

Noun

wipe (plural wipes)

  1. The act of wiping something.
    multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
  2. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
    Hyponym: wet wipe
  3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
  4. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
  5. (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273:
      I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.
  6. (UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
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Etymology 2

Compare Swedish vipa, Danish vibe (“lapwing”).

Noun

wipe (plural wipes)

  1. A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

Etymology 3

From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening.

Verb

wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped)

  1. (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
    If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.

Noun

wipe (plural wipes)

  1. (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
    Synonym: TPK
Derived terms
  • party wipe

Middle English

Verb

wipe

  1. Alternative form of wipen

Source: wiktionary.org