Definitions for Scrabble

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Scrabble scrab·ble

Spelling: [skrab-uh l]

IPA: /ˈskræb əl/

Scrabble is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in Scrabble (abbcelrs).

Definitions for Scrabble

noun

1. a scratching or scraping, as with the claws or hands.
2. a scrawled or scribbled writing.
3. a disorderly struggle for possession of something; scramble:

verb (used with object)

1. to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
2. to grapple or struggle with or as if with the claws or hands.
3. to scrawl; scribble.

verb (used without object)

1. to scratch or dig frantically with the hands; claw (often followed by at):
2. to jostle or struggle for possession of something; grab or collect something in a disorderly way; scramble.

Origin of Scrabble

1530-40; Dutch schrabbelen to scratch, frequentative of schrabben to scrape

Examples for Scrabble

Some are playing the electronic version of scrabble, one of the most venerable games around.

Hold on to me tight, Pilarica, for Coronela will have to scrabble here.

The real reckoning of outraged society is not with him, but with scrabble Alley.

And what do you scrabble in the air with your fingers for, and cry?

It even threatens such veteran horizontally integrated favorites as scrabble, solitaire, and the crossword puzzle.

The best scrabble game I could come up with would be me, Jon Hamm, and Dane DeHaan.

That's the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall.

Note: Unusual words that are playable in scrabble appear in this article in boldface.

It fell in the brook, and before I could scrabble down he was off.

The book came out 30 years ago, and the film was an even bigger flop than that after-school scrabble club you tried to start.