crake
/ˈkɹeɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.96 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of crake.
Example Sentences
- "How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might."
- "'How very disagreeable!' said Annie; 'perhaps the birds took it in turn to crake.'"
- "Of course, a corncrake, as its name suggests, likes to crake among the corn and hayfields, so that in fact you are unlikely ever to confuse it with the spotted crake, a bird to which dry land is almost anathema."
- "I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate."
- "Each man may crake of that which was his own."
- "With him I threatned to be quite, and great things did I crake."
Etymology
From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: crak, kráka, *krak-, *gerh₂-, craken, cracian