raked means sloping. It carries an Arena rating of 1539, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, raked ranks #572 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,175 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #6,071 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #6,366 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words.
raked is pronounced /ɹeɪkt/.
Why “raked” is a great word
Set at a sharp, sloping angle. From the verb *rake* (meaning to incline or slope) + the suffix *-ed* (forming participial adjectives). First recorded in 1945–50. Unlike “slanted,” which implies a casual or accidental tilt, or “level,” which describes a perfect horizontal, “raked” denotes a deliberate, engineered declivity. It is the severe pitch of a modernist theater balcony, the aggressive posture of a sports car’s windshield, and the clean, calculated fall of a clipper ship’s mast. There is violence in this precision: a refusal of the flat plane, a declaration that utility demands the beautiful compromise of the diagonal.
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