Explore Scrabble through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like scribble or doodle. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Scrabble in a sentence
Scrabble meaning
- To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
- To gather hastily.
- To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
Using Scrabble
- The main meaning on this page is: To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws. | To gather hastily. | To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
- Useful related words include: scribble, doodle, drawing, word game.
- In the example corpus, scrabble often appears in combinations such as: playing scrabble, scrabble and, and scrabble.
Context around Scrabble
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scrabble
- In this selection, "scrabble" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playing, collins, win, dictionary, players and words stand out and add context to how "scrabble" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include addiction to scrabble okay and and playing scrabble. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scrabble" sits close to words such as abdi, absa and absconding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scrabble
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I have an addiction to Scrabble, okay? (7 words)
I did play scrabble under my real name…. (8 words)
In college, I started playing tournament-level Scrabble. (8 words)
At Tenison, her home of the past seven and a half years, Sr Paulinus is known for her alert mind, good humour and hobbies including bingo, scrabble, quoits, listening to music, reading, knitting, and crochet as well as watching tennis and cricket. (42 words)
There are also characters who were experimented on by the government, orphans who were forced to scrabble to survive the streets, and even children who had to kill people. (29 words)
In a surprising turn during a tense moment with Liz, one of the contenders, and Chaser Paul Sinha, Bradley needed help understanding a question related to Scrabble tile colours. (29 words)
Which is the only letter in Scrabble to have a value of five points? (14 words)
I have an addiction to Scrabble, okay? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
You win Scrabble by knowing what combinations of letters are accepted as words in the official Scrabble dictionary and how best to arrange them on the board.
Joshua Victor illustrates how he became involved in the world of competitive Scrabble and how it led him to meet his Scrabble idol.
Playing cards and playing Scrabble were two of her hobbies and still remains undefeated playing Scrabble against her son.
Scrabble players, get yourself a copy of the new 2018 Scrabble dictionary, and challenge your favorite smartypants to a battle of the brains.
Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments.
Collins Scrabble Words In all other countries, the competition word list is Collins Scrabble Words 2015 edition, known as CSW15.
I did play scrabble under my real name….
In college, I started playing tournament-level Scrabble.
Mah Jongg, Mexican Train and Scrabble Group Meet Up at Gardiner Library, 1pm.
The first Gaelic Scrabble World Championships have taken place in the Hebrides - and been won with a score of 353.
There are also characters who were experimented on by the government, orphans who were forced to scrabble to survive the streets, and even children who had to kill people.
Which is the only letter in Scrabble to have a value of five points?
Although he grew up in southwestern Ohio, Vance’s family was from the mountains of hard-scrabble eastern Kentucky.
At Tenison, her home of the past seven and a half years, Sr Paulinus is known for her alert mind, good humour and hobbies including bingo, scrabble, quoits, listening to music, reading, knitting, and crochet as well as watching tennis and cricket.
I have an addiction to Scrabble, okay?
In a surprising turn during a tense moment with Liz, one of the contenders, and Chaser Paul Sinha, Bradley needed help understanding a question related to Scrabble tile colours.
In the statement she said: "We were very happy and content in each other's company, enjoying the simple things like playing cards and music, and playing Scrabble.
Paul Kalumba has defended his National Scrabble Championship title, making this his 11th win.
Scrabble isn’t exactly a stranger to making youthful changes.
Today, Scrabble is produced in 28 different languages.
Common combinations with scrabble
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- playing scrabble 7×
- scrabble and 6×
- and scrabble 6×
- to scrabble 4×
- scrabble to 4×
- of scrabble 4×
- in scrabble 3×
- scrabble dictionary 2×
- scrabble players 2×
- collins scrabble 2×