ropes
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of ropes
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (form-of, plural)plural of rope
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noun
- (form-of, plural)plural of rope
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(in-plural)Basic skills of a job.
“show the ropes, learn the ropes”
verb
- (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of rope
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes. The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.
Words you can make from ropes
45 playable · top: PORES (7 pts)
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4 words4-letter words
14 words3-letter words
16 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 front
A single letter you can add to ropes to make another valid word.
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