risp
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
Definition of risp
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- To rub together, to rasp or grate.
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verb
- To rub together, to rasp or grate.
noun
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A rubbing or grating together.
“[T]hat Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English rispen, from Old Norse rispa (“scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *ripsōną (“to rend; rip; tear open”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyb- (“to tear; snatch; pluck; reap”). Compare also Old Norse rifsa (“to plunder; reave”).
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