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Is rape a Scrabble word?

Yes, rape is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

noun (English)

1. (slang, sometimes offensive) An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.countableoffensiveslangsometimesuncountable

2. (slang, sometimes offensive) An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.Examples: "The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore."countableoffensiveslangsometimesuncountable

3. (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.Examples: "the Rape of Nanking"; "Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain."; "Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr. Leslie Charteris's Saint, with pablum about the rape of the dowager's emeralds, or the theft of the blueprint of the newest submarine."archaiccountableuncountable

4. (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.Examples: "Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape. Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?"; "The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage."archaiccountableuncountable

5. (obsolete) That which is snatched away.Examples: "Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.countableobsoleteuncountable

verb (English)

1. (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.Examples: "The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go.""; ""They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped.""Synonyms: ravish, violate, vitiatetransitive

2. (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)Examples: "Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention."; "It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […]."Synonyms: theft, thieveryintransitivetransitive

3. (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.Examples: "Paridell rapeth Hellenore: Malbecco her pursewes: Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him To turne she doth refuse."; "A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd."transitive

4. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.Examples: "I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!"; "They come out here in their perky little foreign cars, fifty pounds of American copper in each one, and tell us we're earth-raping monsters."; "We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed"transitive

5. (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.Examples: "I attended, the mothers went around the circle, introducing themselves. They added a brief statement about their own experiences with vaccine for the reporter’s benefit. Dionne said that she felt “raped” when she was forced to give Tate some vaccinations."offensiveslangsometimes

6. (slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.Examples: "My experienced opponent will rape me at chess."offensiveslangsometimes

noun (English)

1. (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.Examples: "It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed."; "There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record."; "These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084."historical

verb (English)

1. (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.intransitiveobsoletereflexive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.obsolete

adv (English)

1. (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.obsolete

This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "rape"?

Scrabble
6 points
R1
A1
P3
E1
Words With Friends
7 points
R1
A1
P4
E1

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