sake
Cause, interest or account.
Noun 4 meanings
Cause, interest or account.
“For the sake of argument”
Purpose or end; reason.
“for old times' sake”
The benefit or regard of someone or something.
Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
Etymology
From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”).
SAKE at a glance
SAKE has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,582 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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