rap

rap is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
2. intransitive verb. To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
3. transitive verb. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
4. transitive verb. To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
5. noun. A quick, smart blow; a knock.
6. verb. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
7. verb. To hasten.
8. verb. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
9. verb. To exchange; to truck.
10. noun. A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
11. noun. the act of hitting vigorously

    "he gave the table a whack"

    Synonyms: belt, knock, whack, whang

12. noun. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

    "he took the blame for it"

    "it was a bum rap"

    Synonyms: blame

13. 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
14. noun. voluble conversation
15. noun. the sound made by a gentle blow

    Synonyms: pat, tap

16. noun. a gentle blow

    Synonyms: strike, tap

17. verb. talk volubly
18. verb. strike sharply

    "rap him on the knuckles"

    Synonyms: knap

19. verb. perform rap music
20. verb. make light, repeated taps on a surface

    "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

    Synonyms: knock, pink, tap

Synonyms

belt, knock, whack, whang, blame, pat, tap, strike, knap, pink

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rap:

apr, arp, par

Common word forms

raps, raped, raper, rapes, raping, rapped, rapper, rapping

Words from these letters

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