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Is hurtle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hurtle is a Scrabble US word. The word hurtle is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is hurtle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hurtle is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

HURTLE,

5-letter words (2 found)

LUTER,THURL,

4-letter words (15 found)

ERHU,HERL,HUER,HULE,HURL,HURT,LEHR,LURE,LUTE,RULE,RUTH,TEHR,THRU,TRUE,TULE,

3-letter words (18 found)

ELT,ETH,HER,HET,HUE,HUT,LET,LEU,LUR,REH,RET,RUE,RUT,TEL,THE,ULE,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EH,EL,ER,ET,HE,RE,TE,UH,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from hurtle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hurtle

hurtle

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɜːtl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l]
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
  • Homophone: hurdle (t/d-flapping dialects)
  • Hyphenation: hurt‧le

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

hurtle (third-person singular simple present hurtles, present participle hurtling, simple past and past participle hurtled) (chiefly literary, poetic)

  1. (transitive, archaic)
    1. To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:throw
    2. To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
    3. (figuratively) To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:move quickly
    2. (archaic)
      1. Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.
      2. To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
      3. (figuratively) Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • hurtling (noun)
  • hurtlingly
Translations

Noun

hurtle (countable and uncountable, plural hurtles) (chiefly literary, poetic)

  1. (countable) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
  2. (countable, also figuratively) A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
  3. (countable) A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
  4. (uncountable, figuratively) (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
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Etymology 2

Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).

Noun

hurtle (plural hurtles)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”)
    Synonym: (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) hurt
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References

Further reading

  • Vaccinium myrtillus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Vaccinium myrtillus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Vaccinium myrtillus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

  • Luther, lureth, ruleth

Middle English

Verb

hurtle

  1. Alternative form of hurtelen

Source: wiktionary.org