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Is riddle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word riddle is a Scrabble US word. The word riddle is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

R1I1D2D2L1E1

Is riddle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word riddle is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

R1I1D2D2L1E1

Is riddle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word riddle is a Words With Friends word. The word riddle is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1I1D2D2L2E1

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6-letter words (3 found)

DIRLED,DREIDL,RIDDLE,

5-letter words (5 found)

DRIED,IDLED,IDLER,REDID,RILED,

4-letter words (18 found)

DEID,DEIL,DELI,DIED,DIEL,DIRE,DIRL,EILD,IDLE,IRED,LEIR,LIED,LIER,LIRE,REDD,RIDE,RIEL,RILE,

3-letter words (14 found)

DEI,DEL,DID,DIE,ELD,IDE,IRE,LED,LEI,LID,LIE,RED,REI,RID,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,DI,ED,EL,ER,ID,LI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 49 words from riddle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of riddle

riddle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɪdəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪdəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) +‎ -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”).

Noun

riddle (plural riddles)

  1. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
    Synonyms: enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser
  2. An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
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Verb

riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)

  1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  2. (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.

Noun

riddle (plural riddles)

  2. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  3. A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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Verb

riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)

  1. To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
  2. To fill with holes like a riddle.
  3. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English riddel, ridel, redel, rudel, from Old French ridel ("a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”). More at writhe. Doublet of rideau.

Noun

riddle (plural riddles)

  1. (obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain.
  2. (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.

Etymology 4

From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To plait.

Further reading

  • riddle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • riddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • dreidl, lidder

Source: wiktionary.org