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Definition: Spear |
SpearNoun1. A long pointed rod used as a weapon. 2. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish. Verb1. Pierce with a spear; "spear fish". 2. Thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Spear Cairbar asks if Fingal comes in peace, to which Mor-annal replies: "In peace he comes not, king of Erin, I have seen his forward spear." If a stranger kept the point of his spear forward when he entered a strange land, it was a declaration of war; if he carried the spear on his shoulder with the point behind him, it was a token of friendship. (Ossian: Temora, i.) Achilles' spear. Telephus, King of Mysia, in attempting to hinder the Greeks from marching through his country against Troy, was wounded by Achilles' spear, and was told by an oracle that the wound could be cured only by the weapon that gave it; at the same time the Greeks were told that they would never reach Troy except by the aid of Telephus. So, when the Mysian king repaired to Achilles' tent, some of the rust of the spear was applied to the wound, and, in return for the cure which followed, Telephus directed the Greeks on their way to Troy. "Telephus æterna consumptus tabe perisset Si non quæ nocuit dextra tulisset opem." Ovid. The spear of Telephus could both kill and cure. (Plutarch.) (See Achilles' spear. The heavy spear of Valence was of great repute in the days of chivalry. Arthur's spear. Rone or Ron. To break a spear. To fight in a tournament. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. One of several types of fishing tools designed to be driven and wedged inside of bits, rods, etc., lost in a borehole. CF:fishing ta b. A rodlike fishing tool having a barbed-hook end, used to recover rope, wire line, and other materials from a borehole c. Eng. A wooden pump rod cut into lengths of about 40 ft (12 m) , and, for heavy work, often measuring 16 in (40.6 cm) square. Wrought ironspears are also used. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A spear is an ancient weapon, used for hunting and war. It consists of a shaft, usually of wood, with a sharpened head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be of another material fastened to the shaft. The most common design is of a metal spearhead, shaped somewhat like a dagger, and made entirely for thrusting.
Spears of different designs were used for close combat and for throwing. One of the most famous throwing spears is the pilum used by the Romanss.
The spear is a pole weapon, and may be seen as the ancestor of such weapons as the lance, the halberd, the naginata and the pike. Also the bayonet may, when mounted on a rifle, be considered a type of spear.
One spear of religious significance is the Spear of Destiny, an artifact believed by some to have vast mystical powers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spear."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SPEAR | English | Stanford Positron-Electron Assymetric Ring | N/A |
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Synonyms: SpearSynonyms: fishgig (n), fizgig (n), gig (n), lance (n), shaft (n), spear up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: speared (european union, military & defense). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah; cattle prod; chemical mace. |
Combatant | Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman. |
Opening | Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in. |
Perforator | Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Well then we sharpen our olive branch into the point of a spear. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) Haha! No fish can withstand the might of my powerful spear gun, so capably wielded (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) Y'know, back in my days as a rogue demon hunter, I once used that very spear to pin down what I thought was a small Rodentius demon (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) A spear! How stone age. A king would hold a nobler weapon (Quest for Camelot; writing credit: Vera Chapman; Kirk De Micco) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tuktu and the Magic Spear (1967) The Scarlet Spear (1954) Or The Message of the Spear Moora Neya (1911) Rogue Spear (1999) | |
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 | Collecting fish by Hawaiian style spear for determining stomach contents. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | The Prince with a grouper on his spear. Plate VI, print 13. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Two arrow heads: one being a partial point and the other a spear point. Credit: Zanc. |  | [Minerva with spear and shield and gorgon's-head breastplate]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Commissioning ceremonies at the New London submarine base, Groton, Connecticut, 23 July 1943. The submarine's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Joseph F. Enright (second from right) is reading his orders. Civilian standing second from left is Mr. L.Y. Spear, President of the Electric Boat Company, which built Dace. Note Marine bugler at left. Photographer was probably Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Credit: NAVY. |  | Montage of the ship and her officers, circa early 1873, while she was serving on the South Pacific Station. Photographed by Spencer, Artista, presumably in a South American port. Officers in the lower center are (left to right): Lieutenant Commander Smith W. Nichols; Captain John C. Febiger, Commanding Officer; and Surgeon John C. Spear. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Greek or Roman warrior brandishing spear. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Neptune in chariot holding a three-pronged spear. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Native boys from the jungles of Africa, as they come into the Liberian settlements, with sword and spear. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Junior" Spear at stockmen's picnic and barbecue. Spear's Siding, Wyola, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows, seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It looked like a short iron bar, pointed at one end like a spear. |
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Business | Other top hand tool competitors include Spear & Jackson, and Sandvik Ltd., one of the largest producers of handtools in Europe, both of which are leading suppliers to the British DIY market. (references) | |
Two old-established British hand tool companies, Spear & Jackson and Wilkinson Sword, have now become part of American conglomerates, owned by U.S. Industries and Warner-Lambert respectively. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | A fight ensued in which one person using a spear reportedly was killed by gunfire when he attacked a soldier. (references) |
Human Rights | Vietnam | On March 10, in Plei Lau Village in Gia Lai Province, hundreds of soldiers and police clashed with hundreds of ethnic minority persons; two or three soldiers reportedly shot and killed a civilian who had threatened another soldier with a spear. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear. To respond in damages is to contribute to the maintenance of the plaintiff's attorney and, incidentally, to the gratification of the plaintiff. |
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Julie Andrews | Somewhere in the world indeed they are in Boston, at Boston Mass, that wonderful eye-ear infirmary that they have there at the hospital. They are doing phenomenal work. I am helping them spear head it and research it. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The spear point of aggression has been blunted in Viet Nam. |
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| "Spear" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Spear" is used about 279 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) | 88.89% | 248 | 18,908 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.66% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.58% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.87% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 279 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "spear" 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 |
| Spear | Last name | 5,000 | 2,530 |
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Expressions using "spear": fish spear ♦ fishing spear ♦ king's spear ♦ on the spear side ♦ pump spear ♦ sparrow spear ♦ spear bearer ♦ spear carrier ♦ spear foot ♦ spear grass ♦ spear gun ♦ spear hand ♦ spear head ♦ spear or lance ♦ spear side ♦ spear thistle ♦ spear thrower ♦ spear up ♦ spear widgeon ♦ to couch a spear. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spear": Spear-bearer, spear-blade, spear-blades, spear-butt, spear-butts, spear-carrier, spear-carriers, spear-carrying, spear-end, spear-ends, spear-hand, spear-head, spear-headed, spear-heads, spear-length, spear-light, spear-like, spear-point, spear-points, spear-shaft, spear-shaped, spear-thrust, spear-tip, spear-tips, spear-topped, spear-wielding. | |
Ending with "spear": eel-spear, fish-spear. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "spear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtizë (gad, javelin, lance, Pike, pole, shaft, staff), shpoj me shtizë. (various references) | |
Arabic | رم'ح (javelin), ورقة عشب جديدة, حامل الرمح (spearman), حربة (bayonet, lance), الرماح (lancer, spearman), رمح (javelin, lance, pike, shaft), برعم جديد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | харпун (gaff, gig, harpoon, iron), филиз (bine, offset, outgrowth, scion, shoot, sprout, tendril, tiller), копиеносец (henchman, pikeman), копие (assagai, assegai, carbon copy, copy, counterpart, ditto, double, duplicate, imitation, javelin, manifold, print off, repetition, replication, reproduction, shaft, tally, transcript, transcription), млад стрък трева, забивам харпун в, пускам дълги филизи, пронизвам (impale, peg at, penetrate, rend, search, shoot through, strike, thrust through, transfix, transpierce). (various references) | |
Chinese | 矛 (lance, pike). (various references) | |
Czech | vypuèet (come out), oštìp (dart, javelin, lance), nabodnout (Gore, Spike), kopí (Pike, shaft), harpunovat (harpoon), harpuna (grains, harpoon), bodnout kopím. (various references) | |
Danish | Støtteprogram for europæisk forskningsevaluering, kastespyd (javelin). (various references) | |
Dutch | speer (javelin, lance). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lanco (lance). (various references) | |
Faeroese | spjót (dagger, lance). (various references) | |
Farsi | نیزه ای , نیزه دار, نیزه (Dart, Gad, Gaff, Gig, Harpoon, Lance, Shaft), سنان (Gad), بانیزه زدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | peitsi (lance, pike), keihästää, keihäs (javelin, lance). (various references) | |
French | javelot. (various references) | |
Frisian | spear (lance). (various references) | |
German | Speer (javelin, lance, shaft), Lanze (lance). (various references) | |
Greek | λόγχη (bayonet, lance), δόρυ (pike). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מור ית (lance), לשפ" (skewer, spit), ל"קור בח ית (lance, tilt), ל עוץ (fasten, fix upon, insert, stab, stick, thrust), על" מחו"", ח ית (javelin, lance), כי"ון (bayonet, dart, javelin, lance), רומח (harpoon, javelin, lance). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lándzsa (arme blanche, assagai, assegai, lance, pike, shaft), dárda (dart, javelin, lance, Pike). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tombak (dissatisfied, javelin, pike), lembing (dart, javelin), galah (pole, punting pole, stake). (various references) | |
Italian | lancia (dinghy, harpoon, jolly boat, lance, launch, lifeboat, nozzle, ship's boat, sprayer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 香車 (lance), 槍 (lance), スプロール現象 (space, space colony, space fantasy, space gun, Space Lab, space opera, space plane, space ship, space shuttle, space telescope, space travel, spacecraft, spaceman, spacing, spade, spare, spare rib, spare seat, spare tire, spectrum analyzer, sprawl, sword), ス"ード線 (lines drawn to represent motion, pomeranian, spear fishing, speed controller, speed lines, spin, spin out, spin turn, spin-glass, spinning reel, spirit, spirits, spiritual, spiritualism, Spirochaeta, Spirulina, spitball). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうしゃ (a fanatic, extravagance, insane person, lance, luxury, strong person), スペア (spare), ス"ア , やり (lance). (various references) | |
Korean | 창 (LANCE, Window, Windows). (various references) | |
Manx | sleeaney (goad, lance), sleean (goad, lance), shleiy (pike), cur shleiy trooid, cur gob neese. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ahsìkwara. (various references) | |
Papiamen | lansa (lance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dardo (bolt, dart, javelin, shaft), azagaia (assagai, javelin). (various references) | |
Romanian | suliţã (dart, javelin, lance, Pike), strãpunge cu lancea (lance), prinde cu ostia, ostie (gig), lance (dart, javelin, lance, Pike), harpon (gaff, gig, harpoon), încolţi (attack, bite, bring to bay, corner, germinate, shoot, sprout). (various references) | |
Russian | копье (gad, glaive, shaft), пронзать копье, пронзать (gride, impale, speared, spearing, transfix). (various references) | |
Scottish | sleagh (a spear). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | probosti kopljem (lance), nicati (braird, come up, pullulate, sprout), mladica (imp, offset, offspring, shoot, sprout), koplje (assegai, javelin, lance, pike, shaft). (various references) | |
Spanish | lanza (lance, pole). (various references) | |
Swedish | spjut (javelin, lance). (various references) | |
Thai | หอก. (various references) | |
Turkish | sivri yapraklı bitki, zıpkın (eelspear, gaff, gig, gun harpoon, harpoon, lance, spear gun), mizrak (lance), mızraklamak (lance), mızraklı adam, mızrak saplamak, mızrak (dart, javelin, lance, Pike, shaft), kargı (javelin, Pike). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | устромлятися, списоносець (pikeman), спис (lance), гарпун (harpoon), остень, бити остенем, проколювати списом (lance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái mác, cái giáo (spontoon). (various references) | |
Welsh | saffwy (javelin), tryferu (harpoon), rhaidd (antler), picellu (stab), picell (dart, javelin), pa+r (brace, lance, pair, suit), gwaywffon, cethren (nail), cethr (nail), be+r (roasting-spit). (various references) | |
Zulu | umkhonto (lance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ukur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abies, abietem, abietes, abietibus, curem, cures, curis, cuspis, delo, framea, hasta, hastae, hastam, hastarum, hastas, hastile, hastili, hastis, phalarica, spiculum, tela, telorum, telum, trabem, trabes, trabis. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | sûra. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | franca, gafeluc, gar, ord. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 19, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | All eiV twn stratiwtwn logch autou thn pleuran enuxen kai euquV exhlqen aima kai udwr |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed unus militum lancea latus eius aperuit et continuo exivit sanguis et aqua |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ac an þare kempena ge-openede hisside mid spere. & rædliche þær fleow ut blod& wæter. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But oon of the knyytis openyde his side with a spere, and anoon blood and watir wenten out. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But one of the soudiers with a speare thrust him into the syde and forthwith came ther out bloud and water. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came out blood and water. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there came out blood and water. |
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| Language | John Chapter 19, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Apan usa sa mga sundalo midughang ug bangkaw sa iyang kilid, ug gilayon dihay miagay nga dugo ug tubig. |
| Croatian | nego mu jedan od vojnika kopljem probode bok i odmah poteèe krv i voda. |
| Danish | Men en af Stridsmændene stak ham i Siden med et Spyd, og straks flød der Blod og Vand ud. |
| Dutch | Maar een der krijgsknechten doorstak Zijn zijde met een speer, en terstond kwam er bloed en water uit. |
| Finnish | vaan yksi sotamiehistä puhkaisi keihäällä hänen kylkensä, ja heti vuoti siitä verta ja vettä. |
| French | mais un des soldats lui perça le côté avec une lance, et aussitôt il sortit du sang et de l`eau. |
| German | sondern der Kriegsknechte einer öffnete seine Seite mit einem Speer, und alsbald ging Blut und Wasser heraus. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi lambung Yesus ditusuk dengan tombak oleh seorang dari prajurit-prajurit itu; dan segera keluarlah darah dan air. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | hanyalah seorang laskar menikam rusuk Yesus dengan tombaknya, maka sekejap itu juga mengalir ke luar darah dengan air. |
| Italian | ma uno dei soldati gli colpì il fianco con la lancia e subito ne uscì sangue e acqua. |
| Maori | Engari i werohia tona kaokao e tetahi o nga hoia ki te matia, a puta tonu he toto, he wai. |
| Norwegian | men en av stridsmennene stakk ham i siden med et spyd, og straks kom det ut blod og vann. |
| Portuguese | contudo um dos soldados lhe furou o lado com uma lança, e logo saiu sangue e água. |
| Rumanian | ci unul din ostawi I -a strqpuns coasta cu o suliyq; wi kndatq a iewit din ea sknge wi apq. |
| Russian | ОП П"ЙО ЙЪ ЧПЙОПЧ ЛП ШЕН ТПОЪЙМ еНХ ТЕ'ТБ, Й ФПФЮБУ ЙУФЕЛМБ ЛТПЧШ Й ЧП"Б. |
| Shuar | suntar aya paenam ijiumiayi. Ijiumtaisha nu chichamtaik numpa yumijiai puarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Lakini askari mmoja alimtoboa ubavuni kwa mkuki, na mara ikatoka damu na maji. |
| Swedish | men en av krigsmännen stack upp han sida med ett spjut, och strax kom därifrån ut blod och vatten. |
| Uma | Aga hadua tantara mpojalo lumpeha-na hante ponci' -na. Karajalo-na tohe'e, mo'ili-mi tumai raa' pai' ue. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spear": speared, spearer, spearers, spearfish, spearfished, spearfishes, spearfishing, speargun, spearguns, spearhead, spearheaded, spearheading, spearheads, spearing, spearman, spearmen, spearmint, spearmints, spears, spearwort, spearworts. (additional references) | |
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"Spear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espedair, espiar, espoir, Pseira, psora, saper, Saperavi, sbea, scear, sepac, separ, separe, sepr, Septr, skear, snear, spaer, spair, spara, sparr, spea, spead, speal, speam, spean, speard, spearl, spearm, spearn, Specac, speeb, speery, speo, speu, spia, spior, spira, splead, spoir, spuare, stear, supea, supera, Xpelair. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spear" (pronounced spi"r) |
| 4 | s p i" r | Speer, speir. |
| 3 | -p i" r | appear, disappear, peer, pier, reappear. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: apers, apres, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, spare. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, eras, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, rape, raps, rase, rasp, reap, reps, sear, sera, spae, spar. | |
-2 letters: ape, are, ars, asp, ear, era, ers, par, pas, pea, per, pes, rap, ras, rep, res, sae, sap, sea, ser, spa. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arpens, aspers, aspire, capers, crapes, drapes, escarp, gapers, gasper, grapes, japers, jasper, lapser, operas, pacers, padres, pagers, papers, pareos, parers, pareus, parges, paries, parles, parsec, parsed, parser, parses, passer, paster, paters, pauser, pavers, pawers, payers, pearls, phrase, praise, prases, prates, praxes, rapers, raphes, rasped, rasper, recaps, remaps, repass, repast, repays, sapper, sarape, scrape, secpar, serape, seraph, shaper, sherpa, soaper, spacer, spader, spared, sparer, spares, sparge, sparse, spears, spirea, spread, tapers, trapes. | |
| 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. | |
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