Scrabble
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English
Etymology
A brand name, from the verb scrabble, James Brunot's 1948 rebranding of Alfred Butts's 1938 game Criss-Crosswords.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Scrabble
- 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.
- 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Birth Day”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, pages 148–149:
- 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.
- 2000, Eric T. Olson, Tammy Perry Olson, Real-Life Math: Statistics, Walch Publishing,, →ISBN, page 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
Translations
board game with interlocking words
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Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Scrabble
- Scrabble (board game)
Declension
If a plural form is needed, it is better to use the term Scrabble-peli ("game of Scrabble") than Scrabble.
| Inflection of Scrabble (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Scrabble | — | ||
| genitive | Scrabblen | — | ||
| partitive | Scrabblea | — | ||
| illative | Scrabbleen | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Scrabble | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Scrabble | — | |
| gen. | Scrabblen | |||
| genitive | Scrabblen | — | ||
| partitive | Scrabblea | — | ||
| inessive | Scrabblessa | — | ||
| elative | Scrabblesta | — | ||
| illative | Scrabbleen | — | ||
| adessive | Scrabblella | — | ||
| ablative | Scrabblelta | — | ||
| allative | Scrabblelle | — | ||
| essive | Scrabblena | — | ||
| translative | Scrabbleksi | — | ||
| abessive | Scrabbletta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Scrabble.
Proper noun
Scrabble m
- Scrabble (board game with interlocking words)