creek
A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
Noun 4 meanings
A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
Any turn or winding.
Etymology
From Middle English crike, probably from Old Norse kriki, from Proto-Germanic *krikjô, variant of krekô, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, to wind”); the modern form creek (already late Middle English creke) either reflects open-syllable lengthening of Middle English /i/ or reborrowing from Middle Dutch krēke.
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CREEK at a glance
CREEK has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + R 1 + E 1 + E 1 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,732 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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