drake
A male duck (bird).
Noun 4 meanings
A male duck (bird).
dragon
beaked galley, or Viking warship
a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
Etymology
From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), either from Old English *draca, *andraca (“male duck, drake”) or from Middle Low German drâke, andrâke, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“drake”, literally “duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”).
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DRAKE at a glance
DRAKE has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (D 2 + R 1 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,442 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with drake
All rhymesOne letter away
- BRAKE11
- DRAPE8
- CRAKE11
- DRAVE9
- DROKE10
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