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Is dawdle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dawdle is a Scrabble US word. The word dawdle is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is dawdle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dawdle is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

D2A1W4D2L1E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

DAWDLE,WADDLE,

5-letter words (10 found)

ADDLE,DALED,DAWED,DEDAL,DWALE,LADED,LAWED,WADED,WALED,WEALD,

4-letter words (17 found)

ALEW,AWDL,AWED,DALE,DAWD,DEAD,DEAL,DEAW,LADE,LEAD,LEWD,WADD,WADE,WALD,WALE,WEAL,WELD,

3-letter words (19 found)

ADD,ALE,AWE,AWL,DAD,DAE,DAL,DAW,DEL,DEW,ELD,LAD,LAW,LEA,LED,LEW,WAD,WAE,WED,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AL,AW,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,EW,LA,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 61 words from dawdle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dawdle

dawdle

Etymology 1

The verb is possibly:

  • a variant of daddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk or work slowly, dawdle, saunter, trifle”) or doddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk feebly or slowly, dawdle, idle, saunter, stroll”), possibly influenced by daw (“(Britain, dialectal) lazy, good-for-nothing person, sluggard”); or
  • borrowed from Middle Low German dȫdelen (“to dawdle”), related to Saterland Frisian döädelje (“to dawdle”); compare also German daddeln (“to play”), German verdaddeln (“to waste (time), neglect, ruin”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɔːdl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔd(ə)l/
  • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
  • Homophone: doddle (in accents with the cot–caught merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
  • Hyphenation: daw‧dle

Verb

dawdle (third-person singular simple present dawdles, present participle dawdling, simple past and past participle dawdled)

  1. (transitive) Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. [from late 18th c.]
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time. [from mid 17th c. (probably dialectal); in general use from late 18th c.]
      Synonyms: dally, dilly-dally, take one's time; see also Thesaurus:loiter
    2. To move or walk lackadaisically.
Conjugation
Alternative forms
  • daudle (rare)
Derived terms
  • dawdler
  • dawdlesome
  • dawdling (adjective, noun)
Translations

Noun

dawdle (plural dawdles)

  1. An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
  2. An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
  3. Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”)

Etymology 2

A variant of doddle.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɔːdl̩/, /ˈdɒdl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːdəl, -ɒdəl
  • Homophone: doddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
  • Hyphenation: daw‧dle

Noun

dawdle (plural dawdles)

  1. Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”)

References

Anagrams

  • Dewald, Waddle, dwaled, waddle, walded

Source: wiktionary.org