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Definitions: Rake |
RakeNoun1. A dissolute man in fashionable society. 2. Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane: "the roof had a steep pitch". 3. A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil. Verb1. Move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair". 2. Level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel". 3. Sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast". 4. Examine hastily. 5. Gather with a rake; "rake leaves". 6. Scrape gently. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of using a rake, portends that some work which you have left to others will never be accomplished unless you superintend it yourself. To see a broken rake, denotes that sickness, or some accident will bring failure to your plans. To see others raking, foretells that you will rejoice in the fortunate condition of others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | The inclination of a rock stratum from the horizontal, the angle between its maximum slope and the horizontal being the true dip. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Rake A libertine. A contraction of rakehell, used by Milton and others. "And far away amid their rakehell bands They speed a lady left all succourless." Francis Quarles. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | An iron bar, either straight or elbowed, used for cleaning the metal batch or the furnace walls. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (schuinsmarcheerder). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | RAKE, RAKEHELL, or RAKESHAME. A lewd, debauched fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: RakeSynonyms: blood (n), pitch (n), profligate (n), rip (n), roue (n), slant (n), crease (v), glance over (v), graze (v), run down (v), scan (v), skim (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset. |
Assemblage | Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. |
Bad Man | Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal. |
Cleanness | Sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep. |
Brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter. | |
Disapprobation | Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct. |
Evidence | Collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up evidence; experiment. |
Excitation | Fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up. |
Extraction | Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge. |
Intemperance | Revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper. |
Libertine | Noun: libertine; voluptuary; a; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man; intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard; chartered libertine. |
Memory | Recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past. |
Narrowness Thinness | Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed. |
Regression | Verb: draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in tow. |
Noun: traction; drawing; Verb: draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together"; towage, haulage. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Lyrics | Face first on a rake ("I Can't Watch This"; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rake viski (1968) | |
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Thomas B. Macaulay | He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her father was a brutal, boasting old professor of mathematics, never married, and a rake, despite his years. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He bent down to rake the fire. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He so dragged his rake that the tine marks were straight and deep. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant. |
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| "Rake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 49.63% of the time. "Rake" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 49.63% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 21.11% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.93% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.33% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rake" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rake | Last name | 1,000 | 12,970 |
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1. Rake, IA (city, FIPS 65415) |
Expressions using "rake": block rake ♦ chinese rake ♦ croupier's rake ♦ garden rake ♦ hand rake ♦ lawn rake ♦ mechanical rake ♦ muck rake ♦ rake about ♦ rake among ♦ rake away ♦ rake blade ♦ rake for cattle ♦ rake handle ♦ rake in ♦ rake of stylus ♦ rake off ♦ rake out ♦ rake over ♦ rake through ♦ rake together ♦ rake trough ♦ rake up ♦ rake up evidence ♦ rake up the past ♦ rake vein ♦ root rake ♦ stubble rake ♦ thin as a rake ♦ To rake out ♦ To rake up ♦ Top rake. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rake": rake-held, rake-hell, rake-off, rake-offs, Rake-vein. | |
Ending with "rake": drag-rake, hay-rake, muck-rake. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rake | 139 |
power rake | 87 |
landscape rake | 84 |
york rake | 59 |
hay rake | 57 |
rake yohn | 44 |
clam rake | 33 |
rock rake | 32 |
cyclone rake | 30 |
garden rake | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rashqel, shpinë (back, backing, rear, spine), shkrif tokën, punoj me grabujë, pjesë e pjerrët, pastroj me krehër, mbledh me rashqel, krehër (clip, comb, raker), kënd pjerrësisë, griba (comb, currycomb), grabujë (raker), capë (spud). (various references) | |
Arabic | خليع (dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, licentious, profligate, rakish, uninhibited, wanton), أشعل النار (poke the fire, set fire), ألقى نظرة خاطفة على, إنحدار (coming down, decline, declivity, downgrade, downhill, falling, inclination, ramp, scarp, slope, steep, tilt), المدمة أداة لجمع العشب, جراف, جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, shovel, sweep, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank, wash), جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), شخص فاسق, خدش (abrasion, claw, graze, mark, scarify, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratch off), فاجر (bawdy, dissipated, dissolute, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rakish, wanton), زاوية الجرف, نبش (dig into, dig out, dig up, disinterment, exhume, grub, make a hole in, resurrect, revelation, scratch up, snoop, snooping, unearthing), نقب (burrow, burrowing, comb, delve, drilling, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, quest, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize, sleuth), مس مسا رقيقا, محراك الجمر, كسب بسرعة, كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), كنس (besom, broom, scavenge, sweep, sweeping, whisk), خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wicked, wily). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | oomowááhkii (to rake). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оглаждам (even, iron, press, smooth out), поглеждам набързо, почиствам (clean, clean out, clean up, overcast, refurbish, rumble, whip, wipe clean), преден ъгъл на нож, лопатка на крупие, женкар (chaser, dangler, lothario, rakehell, wolf), загребвам (scoop, scoop in), заравнявам (level, plane), накланям (recline, shear, tilt, tip), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), наклон на щевен, одрасквам (clapperclaw, graze, scrape, scratch, scuff), докосвам леко (shave), обстрелвам продолно, ъгъл на щевен, грапа (raker), гребло (grab, oar, paddle, raker, scoop), греба (dip, dredge, ladle, oar, pull, pull an oar, row, scoop, shovel), търмък (raker), търмъча (rake away, rake off), фланкирам с огън, хокам (rag, rate, revile, scold, tick off, vituperate), скосяване (scarf), срязване (put down, rebuff, repulse, set down, shear, shearing, squelch), събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), ъгъл на наклон, обхващам с поглед (travel). (various references) | |
Chamorro | balle. (various references) | |
Chinese | 犁耙 (Ploughshare, Plowshare, rake-off), ' (climb, cling to, crawl, dig up, hold on to, pull, push aside, snatch, to strip). (various references) | |
Czech | zpustlík (libertine, reprobate), sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), pohrabáè (poker), přehrabovat, hrabat (grub, paw, scrabble), hrábì, hejsek (toff), šikmé jevištì. (various references) | |
Danish | slaggerager (rabble), inklination (angle of inclination, dip, inclination, pitch, plunge, strike), ildrager (poker, rabble), hældning (dip, inclination, pitch, plunge, ramp, slope, strike, tilt, tip inclination), dyk (dip, dive, inclination, pitch, plunge, strike). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitkammen (comb, weeding), opharken, harken (raking, to rake), aanharken. (various references) | |
Esperanto | rastilo, rasti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | raka saman. (various references) | |
Farsi | جای پا (Toe, Trace, Vestige), باسرعت جلورفتن , باچنگک جمع کردن , شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), شن کش , شیب (Declivity, Dip, Gradient, Inclination, Incline, Pendant, Slant, Slope, Tilt), شیار (Groove, List, Ruck, Thread, Valley), رگه (Grain, Strain, Streak, Thread, Vein), بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Reprobate, Vile), جاده باریک , فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), جمع اوری کردن (Cull, Levy, Mass, Muster, Reap), خطسیر (Duct, Itinerary, Pathway, Trajectory, Vector), خمیدگی (Bend, Bent, Curvature, Loop, Offset, Stoop), سفر (Expedition, Journey, Junket, Pilgrimage, Progress, Tour, Trade, Trek, Trip, Voyage), چنگال (Claw, Clef, Clutch, Fork, Grain, Nail, Paw, Pitchfork, Prong, Talon), چنگک (Gaff, Hook, Peg, Prong, Tach, Uncus), هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), فاجر (Dissolute, Rakish), اثر (Affect, Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Umbrage, Vestige). (various references) | |
Finnish | haravoida (raking, to rake). (various references) | |
French | ringard (rabble), râteau. (various references) | |
Frisian | klauje. (various references) | |
German | harken (rake over, rakes, raking, to rake), Harke (billhook, scarifier, wooden rake), rechen (grill, mouse, rack, raking, to rake), Neigung (affection, affinity, angle of inclination, aptitude, batter, bent, bias, declination, decline, dip, disposition, fall, fondness, geologic dip of planar features, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, list, obliqueness, penchant, pitch, plunge, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, strike, taste, tendance, tendency, tilt, turn). (various references) | |
Greek | ξύστρα (buffer, carding comb, cattle comb, chain harrow, curry comb, flight, light spiked chain harrow, paddle, pencil sharpener, rabble, raker, rasp, scraper, sharpener, squeegee). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופקר (meretricious, profligate, unbridled), מש""", מארופ" (shovel), מ'וב, מ'רפ" (shovel, trowel), לחטט (grub, nose, ransack, root, rummage, scrabble), לאסוף (collect, gather, reap, remove, round up, take in, withdraw), ל"מטיר יריות (fusillade), לצבור (accumulate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, pile up, stack, stash, store), שפיע" (leaning, slant), שפוע (bank, bevel, cant, gradient, incline, obliqueness, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip), "ולל (licentious, mirthful, profligate, rakish, unruly), טי" (bent, deviation, disposition, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, pitch, predilection, proclivity, propensity, set, slant, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gereblye, piszkavas (firing-tools, poker, rabble, rabbler, stoker), lejtés (batter, downhill, droop, gradient, hang, inclination, pitching, slope, swing), korhely (debauchee, guzzler, raffish, rakehell, sot), dőlés (dip, gradient, heeling, listing, pitching, slant, slope, tilt), bontófésű, élvhajhász (goat, lecherous, rakehell). (various references) | |
Icelandic | raka, hrífa. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggaruk (comb, curry, harrow, scraper), menggaruk (clean out, rob, round up people). (various references) | |
Italian | rastrello (billhook, pig, rabbit, rabbler, rack, scraper, scratcher, wooden rake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 馬鍬 (harrow), 熊手 (bamboo rake, fork), ルミノール試" (free loader, lake, laser, laser disk, laser printer, laserknife, Laserwriter, LD, Le Monde, loafer, luminol test, lung, racer, rumba, tramp, unemployed person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レーキ , くまで (bamboo rake, fork), まぐわ (harrow). (various references) | |
Korean | 이크. (various references) | |
Manx | raistyl (libertine), raakey (rake out, rake over, scrape together), raak, faaney (batter, inclination, incline, ski-run, slant), corlaigey (rake over, scrape together), corlaig (muckrake, scraper), ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rain, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear), ard-stroailtagh (wastrel). (various references) | |
Papago | hukshanakud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | harka, haladó. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akeray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ancinho (billhook, garden tillage, Harrow, reel, wooden rake), limpar (bream, brush, clean, cleanse, delete, depurate, dressing, fetus, furbish, make clean, mop up, purge, purify, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, to curry, to dress and to brush, to dry out, to groom, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), inclinação (addiction, angle of inclination, appetite, batter, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, dip, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling rock, fellow feeling, fondness, full dip, grade, gradient, hang, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, leans, like, liking, list, loquacious, motion, partiality, pencil, pitch, plunge, proclivity, propensity, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, strike, taper, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, true dip, vocation, will). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãscoli (agitate, disturb, quarry, rout, rummage, stir, turn smth. inside out), zgândãri (aggravate, anger, embitter, sharpen, touch), scormoni (dig up, fan, ferret, Grout, poke up, ransack, rout, rummage, scan, scrutinize, search, stir up), libertin (dissolute, libertine), greblã, fi înclinat (be out of plumb, hang, shelve, slope), destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, loose, profligate, reinless, reprobate, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster), crai (emperor, Lovelace, padishah, philanderer, whoremaster), cociorvã, berbant (scapegrace). (various references) | |
Russian | грабли (raker, rakers). (various references) | |
Scottish | r sdal, r sdail (a rake, harrow, sound of frying meat), r c (a drake, a rake, quack, the call of a duck). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zasuti vatrom (shell), zaraditi (earn, make a profit, net), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, levy, pucker, raise, shrink, treasure), grabulje (raker), grabuljati. (various references) | |
Spanish | rastro (dredge, fabricated steel chock, raker, scent, sign, spoor, trace, track, trail, vestige), rastrillo (beater, comb, portcullis, rack, raker, reed, ripper, scarifier, scraper, slusher), hurgón (poker, rabble). (various references) | |
Swedish | räfsa (raker, raking, to rake), kratta (coward), rucklare (fast liver). (various references) | |
Thai | เสาะหา, เอียงลา" (bevel), การลา"เอียง (obliqueness, tip), กวา""้วยครา", คนเสเพล (rip), คุ้ย (scrabble about). (various references) | |
Turkish | tırmıkla toplamak (rake together), çapkın adam (gay dog), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey), arayıp taramak (comb, comb out, delve), eğiklik (inclination, obliqueness, skew, slant), fırın tarağı, gelberi (rabble), çapkın (amorist, chaser, debauchee, dissolute, flirt, flirtatious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, lothario, profligate, rakish, rascal, rip, rogue, roguish, roue, vagabond, varlet, villain, wolf, womanizer), tırmık (drag, grubber, Harrow), zampara (debauchee, fornicator, goat, lecher, lecherous, lubricious, lubricous, masher, roue, wolf, womanizer), tırmıklamak (Harrow, rake over, seam), taraklamak, taramak (card, comb, drag, groom, scan, sweep, teasel), uçarı (abandoned, debauchee, dissolute, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, giddy, rip), yan yatma, yan yatmak (careen), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dyrmyk, dyrmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | скребачка (scrubber, spade, wiper), розгрібати, чистити скребачкою, кочерга (poker, rabble), граблі (raker), загрібати (claw, pull in, rake in, scoop up), перегрібати (rabble). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nghiêng về phía sau, que cời than cái c o tiền, kẻ trác táng cái c o cái c o than, kẻ chơi bời phóng đãng. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhacanu, rhaca, cribinio, cribin (skinflint). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | interrasile, interrasilem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rake": raked, rakee, rakees, rakehell, rakehells, rakehelly, rakeoff, rakeoffs, raker, rakers, rakes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rake": aerobrake, berake, brake, canebrake, corncrake, crake, drake, firedrake, lapstrake, mandrake, muckrake, sheldrake, strake, unbrake. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rake": aerobraked, aerobrakes, beraked, berakes, brakeage, brakeages, braked, brakeless, brakeman, brakemen, brakes, canebrakes, corncrakes, crakes, drakes, firedrakes, kraken, krakens, mandrakes, muckraked, muckraker, muckrakers, muckrakes, parakeet, parakeets, parrakeet, parrakeets, ringstraked, sheldrakes, straked, strakes, unbraked, unbrakes, unraked. (additional references) | |
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"Rake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arake, arek, Ariake, arke, arken, arket, Arku, aroke, eake, Gralko, mrake, prake, raae, rac, Radke, Radko, raeker, rahe, raie, raik, raike, Rajka, Rajko, rak, raka, raken, raker, rakey, rakia, rakic, rakie, Rakim, Rakiz, raku, raky, ralee, rame, rane, ranke, ranki, Ranku, raoe, Raska, raue, rauk, ravk, rawe, raxe, Raykat, rece, Reikel, reje, reka, riek, Rijken, Rijksen, rika, rike, Rikei, Rikke, rilke, rk, Rka, rke, Rkka, roace, roke, rokey, roki, ruke, Rwaje, Ryke, wrake. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rake" (pronounced rā"k) |
| 3 | r ā" k | brake, break, Drake. |
| 2 | -ā" k | ache, awake, bake, cake, fake, flake, forsake, haik, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, Paik, partake, quake, remake, retake, sake, shake, snake, spake, stake, steak, take, wake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-r" | |
-1 letter: are, ark, ear, era, kae, kea. | |
-2 letters: ae, ar, er, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-r" | |
+1 letter: asker, baker, brake, break, crake, creak, drake, eskar, faker, freak, kebar, laker, maker, raked, rakee, raker, rakes, saker, taker, waker, wreak. | |
+2 letters: arcked, arkose, askers, backer, bakers, bakery, balker, banker, barked, barker, beaker, berake, braked, brakes, breaks, cakier, calker, canker, carked, crakes, creaks, creaky, dacker, daiker, danker, darked, darken, darker, darkey, darkie, darkle, debark, dekare, demark, drakes, embark, eskars, eureka, fakeer, fakers, fakery, flaker, freaks, freaky, gawker, hacker, hanker, harked, harken, hawker, jacker, kaiser, karate, kasher, kebars, kerria, kraken, krater, lacker, lakers, lakier, lanker, larked, larker, leaker, lekvar, makers, marked, marker, market, masker, narked, packer, parked, parker, quaker, racked, racker, racket, rackle, rakees, rakers, ranked, ranker, rankle, remake, remark, repack, repark, rerack, resoak, retack, retake, rewake, sacker, sakers, screak, shaker, skater, slaker, soaker, strake, streak, tacker, takers, talker, tanker, wakers, walker, warked, weaker, wreaks, yakker. | |
+3 letters: airlike, arabesk, arkoses, armlike, backers, balkers, balkier, bankers, barkeep, barkers, barkier, beakers, beakier, beraked, berakes, blacker, blanker, bleaker, bracken, bracket, brakier, breaker, breakup, brokage, cackler, calkers, cankers, caulker, charked, clacker, comaker, corkage, cracked, cracker, crackle, cranked, cranker, crankle, creaked, croaked, croaker, dackers, daikers, darkens, darkest, darkeys, darkies, darkled, darkles, debarks, dekares, demarks, earlock, earmark, embarks, fakeers, flakers, flakier, flanker, forsake, franked, franker, freaked, garpike, gawkers, gawkier, grackle, hackers, hackler, hankers, harkens, hauberk, hawkers, hearken, hektare, jackers, kaisers, karaoke, karates, kashers, kauries, kayaker, keramic, keratin, kerrias, kerygma, keycard, klavern, knacker, knapper, knarred, knavery, kneader, kraaled, krakens, kraters, lackers, lankier, larkers, larkier, leakers, leakier, lekvars, markers, markets, maskers, meerkat, nakeder, oarlike, packers, parkers, partake, pawkier, peakier, pranked, prebake, prepack, presoak, quakers, quakier, rackers, rackets, rackety, rakeoff, ramekin, rampike, rankers, rankest, rankled, rankles, ranpike, ratlike, raylike, reawake, reawoke, remaker, remakes, remarks, repacks, reparks, reracks, resoaks, respeak, restack, retacks, retaken, retaker, retakes, retrack, rewaked, rewaken, rewakes, sackers, sarkier, screaks, screaky, seamark, shakers, shakier, sharked, sharker, skaters, skiwear, slacker, slakers, smacker, snakier, sneaker, soakers, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, speaker, stacker, stalker, starker, straked, strakes, streaks, streaky, swanker, tackers, tackier, tackler, talkers, talkier, tankers, thanker, tracked, tracker, traiked, troaked, unbrake, unmaker, unraked, wackier, wakener, walkers, warlike, whacker, wracked, wreaked, wreaker, yakkers. | |
+4 letters: aircheck, ankerite, arabesks, archduke, asparkle, asterisk, attacker, awakener, backfire, backrest, bakeries, bankerly, bareback, baresark, barkeeps, barkiest, barkless, barnlike, basketry, baulkier, beadwork, bearlike, bearskin, bedarken, bedmaker, beraking, bidarkee, brackens, brackets, brakeage, brakeman, brakemen, brakiest, breakage, breakers, breaking, breakout, breakups, brockage, brokages, cacklers, cankered, capework, capmaker, caretake, caretook, carmaker, casework, caulkers, chalkier, clackers, comakers, cookware, corkages, corncake, crackers, crackled, crackles, cracknel, crankest, crankier, crankled, crankles, creakier, creakily, creaking, croakers, croakier, dackered, daikered, dakerhen, darkened, darkener, darklier, darkness, darksome, daybreak, debarked, dekagram, demarked, diemaker, earlocks, earmarks, ecofreak, embarked, fakeries, fireback, flackery, flankers, forepeak, forerank, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, frankers, frankest, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, freakout, garpikes, grackles, grosbeak, hacklers, hacklier, hairlike, hankered, hankerer, harelike, harkened, harkener, hatmaker, hauberks, havocker, haymaker, headwork, hearkens, hektares, hijacker, icemaker, imbarked, imparked, jackeroo, kaiserin, kaleyard, karaokes, karosses, kashered, kayakers, keramics, keratins, keratoid, keratoma, keratose, kerygmas, keyboard, keycards, kidnaper, klaverns, knackers, knackery, knappers, kneaders, knitwear, kreplach, lacework, lackered, lakeport, lardlike, larkiest, larksome, laverock, lawmaker, leadwork, lukewarm, mackerel, makeover, malarkey, mandrake, mapmaker, markedly, marketed, marketer, marksmen, maverick, meerkats, mistaker, muckrake, neckwear, ninebark, outbreak, overbake, overrank, oversoak, overtake, overtalk, overtask, overweak, packager, parakeet, parakite, parklike, parroket, partaken, partaker, partakes, plankter, prebaked, prebakes, prefrank, prepacks, presoaks, quackery, racketed, rakehell, rakeoffs, ramekins, rampikes, rankness, ranpikes, rashlike, reaphook, reattack, reawaked, reawaken, reawakes, reawoken, redshank, reembark, rejacket, remakers, remaking, remarked, remarker, remarket, repacked, reparked, reracked, resoaked, respeaks, restacks, retacked, retackle, retakers, retaking, retracks, rewakens, rewaking, rockabye, ropewalk, sarkiest, screaked, seamarks, seatwork, shackler, sharkers, shikaree, slackers, smackers, snarkier, sneakers, sneakier, spankers, sparkers, sparkier, sparkled, sparkler, sparkles, sparlike, speakers, squawker, squeaker, stackers, stalkers, stalkier, starkers, starkest, starlike, streaked, streaker, swankier, tacklers, takeover, teamaker, teamwork, telemark, teriyaki, thankers, thwacker, tidemark, trackage, trackers, trackmen, traplike, truckage, tweakier, unbraked, unbrakes, unmakers, unmarked, unmasker, unpacker, unranked, upmarket, valkyrie, wakeners, wakerife, walkover, walkyrie, warmaker, wartlike, weakener, weaklier, whackers, whackier, wigmaker, workable, workfare, workmate, wreakers, wreaking, wreckage, yarmelke, yarmulke, yearbook. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 6B 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 006B 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52677771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction |