Scrabble

scrabble scrabblé English + Etymology en :der scrabble A brand name, from the verb en scrabble, James Brunot's rebranding (1948) of Alfred Butts's game Criss-Crosswords (1938). Pronunciation en /ˈskɹæ.bəl/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Scrabble.wav Southern England en æbəl 2 en Scrab ble Proper noun A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board. 148–149 148 So that's what's in the forbidden room! Scrabble! I want to laugh, shriek with laughter, fall off my chair. This was once the game of old women, old men, in the summers or in retirement villas, to be played when there was nothing good on television. Or of adolescents, once, long long ago. Now of course it's something different. Now it's forbidden, for us. en 2000 Eric T. Olson; Tammy Perry Olson Real-Life Math: Statistics Walch Publishing, 0825138639 56 Start by asking students if they ever watch Wheel of Fortune, or play games like Hangman or Scrabble.® Ask whether they have ever noticed any patterns in the frequency with which letters appear. 2012 August 18, Bill Kurtis, “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio: At the tournament level I dabble / But my tiles show a meaningless babble / I filled up my ranks / With a few extra blanks / And got busted for cheating at Scrabble Derived terms en Scrabbler Scrabblist Scrabbly Translations board game with interlocking words Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 拼字游戏 pīn zì yóu xì Dutch: nl scrabble n Esperanto: eo Skrablo Finnish: fi Scrabble, fi Riti-Rati sanapeli French: fr Scrabble m Galician: gl Scrabble German: de Scrabble Hebrew: he שַׁבֵּץ נָא shabétz na Hungarian: hu Scrabble Icelandic: is Skrafl n Italian: it Scarabeo m Marathi: mr स्क्रॅबल m Polish: pl Scrabble Portuguese: pt Scrabble m Romanian: ro Scrabble n Russian: ru Скрэббл m, ru эрудит m Эруди́т, ru словодел m Словоде́л Russian variants Slovene: sl Šopi m Spanish: es Scrabble Swedish: sv Scrabble Turkish: tr Karalama, tr Dizmece Anagrams en abbcelrs clabbers crabbles en Scrabble Finnish Etymology From fi en Scrabble. Pronunciation skrabble skräbl Proper noun en Scrabble board game with interlocking words Declension If a plural form is needed, it is better to use the term Scrabble-peli ("game of Scrabble") than Scrabble. sg Scrabbl e a Portuguese Etymology pt :ubor en:Scrabble + 1 Proper noun m en Scrabble board game with interlocking words