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rase

/ɹeɪz/verb

rase is a verb meaning “Alternative spelling of raze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-S-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Rase, the name).

What does rase mean?

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of raze.

  2. 2

    To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.

  3. 3

    To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.

  4. 4

    To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.

  5. 5

    To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.

  7. 7

    obsoleteTo carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.

  8. 8

    obsoleteTo remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.

  9. 9

    archaicTo be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.

  10. 10

    obsoleterareOf a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAn act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.

  2. 2

    obsoleteAlternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).

  3. 3

    obsoleterareA measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce rase?

  • US /ɹeɪz/

Rase has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-rase.wav, En-us-raise.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of rase

  • rases present, singular, he/she/it
  • rasing participle, present
  • rased participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is rase?

Rase appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Rase, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with rase

Sounds like: raise, raze (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does rase come from?

A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).