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RAKES

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

RAKES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

RAKES root RAKE-s

Word family

RAKE 1 RAKING 3 RAKED-d 2 RAIK 1

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

RAKEE 2 RAKEES 3 RAKINGS 5
noun
  1. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
  2. broadlyA tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
  3. broadlyA type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
  4. A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
  5. The act of raking.
  6. A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
  7. IrelandScotlandslangA lot, plenty.
    • Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.
  8. alsofigurativelyA course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
  9. A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
  10. ScotlandUKA series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
    • The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.
  11. MidlandsalternativeAlternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
  12. ScotlandRate of progress; pace, speed.
  13. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
  14. specificallyIn full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
  15. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
  16. A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
  17. A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
  18. The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
  19. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
verb
  1. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
    • She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.
    • We raked all the leaves into a pile.
  2. alsofigurativelytransitiveOften followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
    • The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.
  3. transitiveOften followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
  4. ambitransitivefigurativelyTo claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
    • The cat’s sharp claws raked the side of my face.
  5. ambitransitivefigurativelyFollowed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
  6. ambitransitivefigurativelyTo search through (thoroughly).
  7. alsoambitransitivefigurativelyTo move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
    • The enemy machine guns raked the roadway.
  8. alsoambitransitivefigurativelyTo fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
  9. IrelandScotlandalsofigurativelytransitiveTo cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
  10. To pick (a lock) with a rake.
  11. alternativeAlternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
  12. MidlandsScotlandintransitiveTo move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
  13. intransitiveOf a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
  14. ambitransitiveTo incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
    • A mast rakes aft.
  15. transitiveTo provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
  16. intransitiverareOf a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
  17. datedintransitiverareTo behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.