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Is crest a Scrabble word?

Yes, crest is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of crest?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.Examples: "I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper."

2. (anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.

3. (informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.Examples: "Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”"informal

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.intransitive

2. (transitive) To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain).Examples: "the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds."transitive

3. (transitive) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.Examples: "His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world."; "groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow"transitive

4. (transitive) To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.Examples: "Like as the shining skie in summers night, / What time the dayes with scorching heat abound, / Is creasted all with lines of firie light"transitive

noun (English)

1. (military) Acronym of comparisons, reasons, examples, statistics, testimony, the five types of verbal support used to enhance an oral presentation.abbreviationacronymalt-of

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "crest"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "crest"?

Scrabble
7 points
C3
R1
E1
S1
T1
Words With Friends
8 points
C4
R1
E1
S1
T1

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