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   Scrab·ble

   /ˈskrab(ə)l/

   

   verb

   • 1. scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something: "she scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for a firm grip"
   • ▪ (of an animal) scratch at something with its claws: "a dog was scrabbling at the door"
   • ▪ scramble or crawl quickly: "lizards scrabbling across the walls"
   • ▪ make great efforts to get somewhere or achieve something: "I had to scrabble around to find this apartment"

   noun

   • 1. an act of scratching or scrambling for something: "he heard the scrabble of claws behind him"
   • 2. a board game in which players use lettered tiles to create words in a crossword fashion. trademark

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make marks at random, scrawl’): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben ‘to scrape’. The noun sense ‘struggle to achieve something’ is originally a North American usage dating from the late 18th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scrabbler noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • S

     1

   • C

     3

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • B

     3

   • B

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

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2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › scrabbleScrabble Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Scrabble is a word that can be a verb or a noun. As a verb, it means to scratch, claw, or scramble. As a noun, it means a repeated scratching or clawing, or an act of scrambling.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ScrabbleScrabble - Wikipedia

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   scrabble.hasbro.com. Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon .

4. scrabble.merriam.comScrabble Word Finder | Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

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   Find playable words for Scrabble using the official SCRABBLE ® Players Dictionary. Enter a word, letters, or wildcards to see possible combinations and scores.

5. www.dictionary.com › browse › scrabbleSCRABBLE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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   Scrabble definition: to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.. See examples of SCRABBLE used in a sentence.

6. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishscrabble | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Scrabble is a word game where players create words from letters on a board and score points. Scrabble can also mean to search or climb quickly, or to try to get something easily.

7. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › scrabblescrabble | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   Scrabble is a word game where players create words from letters on a board and score points. Scrabble can also mean to search or climb quickly, or to try to get something easily.

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   How do you play Scrabble?

   • Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon .

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   What does Scrabble mean?

   • Pick the best ones! Spelling Bee Quiz Can you outdo past winners of the National Spelli... The meaning of SCRABBLE is scrawl, scribble. How to use scrabble in a sentence.

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   What is a scribbled word?

   • a scrawled or scribbled writing. After the fumble, there was a scrabble for the football. Trademark. a brand name for a game combining anagrams and crosswords in which two to four players use counters of various point values to form words on a playing board.

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   What is TV Scrabble?

   • Billed as the "Official Home Version" of the game show (or officially as the "TV Scrabble Home Game"), gameplay bears more resemblance to the game show than it does to a traditional Scrabble game, although it does utilize a traditional Scrabble gameboard in play.

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9. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › ScrabbleScrabble - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Scrabble: 1 n a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game Type of: word game any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words board game a game played on a specially designed board