RAPE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RAPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RAPE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 56 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAPE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 8 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RAPE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in RAPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What stands out about RAPE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does RAPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A leafy plant of the cabbage family grown as animal feed and for its seeds, which are pressed into cooking oil.
Rape is a tall plant with bright yellow flowers, farmed widely across fields in Europe for two things: its leaves and stems can be fed to livestock, and its small dark seeds are crushed to produce rapeseed oil, sold today mostly under the name canola oil. Large fields of flowering rape turn the countryside a striking yellow in late spring.
How RAPE is used
Used in farming and food-industry contexts; the same spelling also names a serious criminal offence, a separate and unrelated sense.
- Fields of flowering rape stretched yellow to the horizon in May.
- The farmer grew rape mainly for the oil pressed from its seeds.
- Rapeseed oil from the rape crop is now widely sold as canola oil.
- Cattle were let into the field to graze on the young rape.
- The bright rape blossom attracted swarms of bees each spring.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RAPE
The 4 tiles of RAPE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with RAPE
6 longer words begin with RAPE.
Words ending in RAPE
14 words end in RAPE. Useful as a back hook: play RAPE onto a word already on the board.
Words with RAPE inside
Showing 24 of 126 words that contain RAPE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RAPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RAPE
Common questions about RAPE
- Is RAPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAPE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAPE worth?
- RAPE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAPE mean?
- A leafy plant of the cabbage family grown as animal feed and for its seeds, which are pressed into cooking oil.
- What letters can be added to RAPE?
- RAPE takes 8 hooks: 5 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of RAPE:
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