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Is rate a Scrabble word?

Yes, rate is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 4 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of rate?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) The worth of something; value.Examples: "There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet."; "His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education."countableobsoleteuncountable

2. (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.Examples: "This textbook is first-rate."countableuncountable

3. (obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.Examples: "The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found."countableobsoleteuncountable

4. (obsolete, uncountable) Order; arrangement.Examples: "Thus sat they all around in seemly rate."obsoleteuncountable

5. (obsolete) Ratification; approval.Examples: "c. 1610s, George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar In other men, but in what I approue Beneath his merits: which I will not faile T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget In any time the gratitude of my seruice."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.Examples: "daily rate; hourly rate; etc."countableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.Examples: "She is rated fourth in the country."transitive

2. (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.Examples: "They rate his talents highly."; "To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible."transitive

3. (transitive) To consider or regard.Examples: "He rated this book brilliant."transitive

4. (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.Examples: "The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide."; "Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them."; "A few things DO work in Too Outrageous!, though I am not sure they rate the price of admission."transitive

5. (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.Examples: "The transformer is rated at 10 watts."transitive

6. (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.Britishtransitive

verb (English)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To berate, scold.Examples: "Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple."; "Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!"; "Andronicus the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river."obsoletetransitive

verb (English)

1. (UK dialectal, obsolete) To cause (hay, hemp, flax, etc) to decay (whether in an injurious way, or—as retting—in a useful way) by exposure to weather, particularly wetness.Examples: "From the "line pit" it [flax] is carried to the “RATING GROUND;" - a piece of unbroken aftergrass, where the sheaflets are untied, and the flax spread thin upon the grass. It is calculated, that a full crop ought to cover as much ground as it grew upon. Here it lies until it be sufficiently "rated;" namely, until the more woodlike substance of the stems will separate […]"; "[…] hay when it is cocked either wette or greene, for then sure it is to be rated, and beinge rated looseth both the goode smell and goode taste; and likewise the colour, as yow may perceive by the blackenesse of the cocke on the outside; for if the[…]"; ""Frodingham of Roberte Westabie, for rateing hempe in Skinner Beck, contrairie to paine." - Kirton-in-Lindsey Fine Roll, 1630."UKdialectalobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

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Scrabble
4 points
R1
A1
T1
E1
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4 points
R1
A1
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