scrabble

Other forms of scrabble

plural

scrabbles·

past tense

scrabbled·

present participle

scrabbling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scrabble

What does scrabble mean?

scrabble means "an aimless drawing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrabble?

scrabble has 2 syllables: scrab-ble. The stress falls on "scrab". In IPA it is /ˈskɹæbəl/.

What is another word for scrabble?

Close synonyms include scribble, doodle, grope for, scribble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scrabble a common word?

scrabble is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with scrabble?

1 word rhymes with scrabble. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.