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How to pronounce scrabble in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms doodle, scribble
Type of drawing
Type Words
Synonyms grope for
Type of feel
Type Words
Synonyms scribble
Type of write
Type Words
Type of board game, word game

Examples of scrabble

scrabble
These pathetic upside-down claws will lunge and scrabble for a while longer yet.
From the independent.co.uk
They also proved to be resourceful, living off the land in hard scrabble country.
From the sltrib.com
Many hailed from blue collar backgrounds, like Perry, with hard scrabble roots.
From the swampland.time.com
Scrabble Trickster will include several deviations from the traditional rules.
From the time.com
Machetes are not something you expect to find on hard-scrabble southern farms.
From the time.com
I could take your post and take each letter and mix them up in a scrabble bag.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
So far, so distinct from the hard-scrabble existence of a prairie homesteader.
From the economist.com
But scrabble under the snow, and you'd find some of those famous green shoots.
From the time.com
Custom scrabble tiles are popular as dinner party place names or for children.
From the smh.com.au
More examples
  • Grope for: feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark"
  • Scribble: an aimless drawing
  • 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
  • Scribble: write down quickly without much attention to detail
  • (scrabbly) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods"
  • Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works (e.g. ...
  • The Computer Edition of Scrabble is a computer game developed by Leisure Games for the MacIntosh in 1988, and was an official computerized version of the board game Scrabble.
  • (Scrabbles) A jackhammer is a power tool that combines a hammer and chisel. Hand-held jackhammers are typically powered by compressed air, but some used electric motors. Larger jackhammers used on construction machinery are usually hydraulically powered. ...
  • 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