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Is bubble a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bubble is a Scrabble US word. The word bubble is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

B3U1B3B3L1E1

Is bubble a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bubble is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

B3U1B3B3L1E1

Is bubble a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bubble is a Words With Friends word. The word bubble is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4U2B4B4L2E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

BUBBLE,

5-letter words (1 found)

BUBBE,

4-letter words (5 found)

BLEB,BLUB,BLUE,BULB,LUBE,

3-letter words (5 found)

BEL,BUB,EBB,LEU,ULE,

2-letter words (2 found)

BE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from bubble according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bubble

bubble

Etymology

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌb.əl/
  • Rhymes: -ʌbəl

Noun

bubble (plural bubbles)

  1. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
    Synonym: (obsolete) bull
    Antonym: antibubble
  2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  3. (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  4. (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
  5. (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
  6. (figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
    Synonyms: circumstances, ambience
    Hyponym: filter bubble
  7. An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
  8. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
  9. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  10. The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
  11. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
    Synonyms: giraffe, bubble bath
  12. (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
    Synonym: bubble and squeak
  13. (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
  14. (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
  15. A group of people who are in quarantine together.
  16. Short for travel bubble.
  17. (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.

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Verb

bubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)

  1. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
  5. (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
  6. (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
  7. (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
  8. (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
  9. (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
  10. (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
  11. (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
  12. (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
  13. (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
  15. (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bubble.

Derived terms

  • bubble over
  • bubble under
  • bubble up

Translations

References

  • “bubble”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [7]
  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Jonathon Green (2024) “bubble (and squeak) v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Source: wiktionary.org