crag
Meanings
Plural: crags
Noun
- a steep rugged rock or cliff
- A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
- A rough, broken fragment of rock.
- A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
- The neck or throat.
Origin / Etymology
From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
Scrabble Score: 7
crag is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcrag is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crag is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
crag is a valid Words With Friends word