shake: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 12 letter points · starts with S · ends with E
Meaning of shake
verb
- ergative, transitive
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
Example: The earthquake shook the building.
- transitive
To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
Example: Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
Example: to shake fruit down from a tree
- transitive
To disturb emotionally; to shock.
Example: Her father’s death shook her terribly.
Listed forms: shakes, shaking, shook, shaked, shooketh, shaken, shooken.
Source: Wiktionary — shake.
noun
- countable, uncountable
The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
Example: The cat gave the mouse a shake.
- countable, plural-normally, uncountable
A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- countable, uncountable
A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- countable, uncountable
A milkshake.
Listed forms: shakes.
Source: Wiktionary — shake.
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 shake.
noun
building material used as siding or roofing
noun
frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- milkshake
- milk shake
noun
a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
noun
grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is shake in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of shake
S(1) + H(4) + A(1) + K(5) + E(1) = 12 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 shake
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from shake
19 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in shake. Showing up to 24, longest first.