Definitions for cackle

cackle cack·le

Spelling: [kak-uh l]
IPA: /ˈkæk əl/

Cackle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in cackle (accekl).

Definitions for cackle

noun

  1. the act or sound of cackling.
  2. chatter; idle talk.

verb (used with object)

  1. to utter with cackles; express by cackling:

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
  2. to laugh in a shrill, broken manner.
  3. to chatter noisily; prattle.

Origin of cackle

1175-1225; Middle English cakelen; cognate with Dutch kakelen, Low German kakeln, Swedish kackla

Examples for cackle

"'We've climbed the hill toge-ge-ge-ther,'" chimed in Purvis, with a cackle.

“I am wreaking a double vengeance,” writes Cellini, barely suppressing a cackle.

And now stop your clatter and go to sleep; I'm tired of hearing you cackle.

A mingling of honk and cackle, it manifested not excitement so much as curiosity.

Kabakov is the Beckett of the art world, creating silences and divorcing himself from the cackle.

The detective indulged himself in a cackle of sneering merriment.

And he laughed with a cackle a demon could not have rivalled.

The captain looked at him dully; then, understanding, a cackle came from his throat.

And suddenly, unaccountably, he began to chuckle; he began to cackle noisily.

For most of the film I was too mortified to actually laugh out loud, but that one got a cackle from me.

Word Value for cackle
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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