lake: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with L · ends with E
Meaning of lake
noun
A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
A large amount of liquid.
Example: a lake of wine
- dialectal
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- obsolete
A pit, or ditch.
Listed forms: lakes.
Source: Wiktionary — lake.
noun
- dialectal
Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- obsolete
An offering, sacrifice, gift.
Listed forms: lakes, laik.
Source: Wiktionary — lake.
verb
- Northern, UK, dialectal
To leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.
To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.
- obsolete
To present an offering.
Listed forms: lakes, laking, laked, laik.
Source: Wiktionary — lake.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is lake in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of lake
L(1) + A(1) + K(5) + E(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of lake
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from lake
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in lake. Showing up to 24, longest first.