rap: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 5 letter points · starts with R · ends with P
Meaning of rap
noun
- countable
A sharp blow with something hard.
- countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article
The blame for something, a reprimand, censure, or a legal sentence to serve in prison
Example: You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
- countable, informal, uncountable
A casual talk.
- uncountable
Rap music.
Example: They like listening to rap.
Listed forms: raps.
Source: Wiktionary — rap.
verb
- intransitive
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
To utter quickly and sharply.
Example: The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
- ambitransitive
To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
Example: He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
Listed forms: raps, rapping, rapped.
Source: Wiktionary — rap.
noun
A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
Listed forms: raps.
Source: Wiktionary — rap.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for rap.
noun
a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
noun
a gentle blow
noun
the sound made by a gentle blow
noun
genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- rap music
- hip-hop
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is rap in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of rap
R(1) + A(1) + P(3) = 5 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 rap
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from rap
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in rap. Showing up to 24, longest first.