scrabble
French, noun
scrabble is spelled S-C-R-A-B-B-L-E (8 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scrabble is a French masculine noun meaning “a play where all seven tiles are used; a bingo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of scrabbler. With an accent, scrabblé is a different word: “past participle of scrabbler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Au jeu de Scrabble, coup où un joueur réussit à placer un mot qui utilise les sept lettres de son jeu”.
What does scrabble mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea play where all seven tiles are used; a bingo
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of scrabbler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Au jeu de Scrabble, coup où un joueur réussit à placer un mot qui utilise les sept lettres de son jeu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of scrabble
- scrabbles plural
- scrabblée feminine
- scrabblés masculine plural
- scrabblées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to scrabble
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scrabble in French?
scrabble appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).