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

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Is ridicule a Scrabble UK word?

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

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8-letter words (1 found)

RIDICULE,

7-letter words (1 found)

LUCIDER,

6-letter words (5 found)

CLERID,CLUIER,CURDLE,CURLED,DICIER,

5-letter words (28 found)

CEILI,CIDER,CLIED,CLUED,CRIED,CRUDE,CRUEL,CURED,CURIE,CURLI,DICER,DRICE,DULCE,ICIER,IDLER,LUCID,LUCRE,LUDIC,LURED,LURID,RELIC,RICED,RIDIC,RILED,RUDIE,RULED,ULCER,UREIC,

4-letter words (55 found)

CEDI,CEIL,CIDE,CIEL,CIRE,CIRL,CLUE,CRED,CRUD,CRUE,CUED,CURD,CURE,CURL,DEIL,DELI,DICE,DIEL,DIRE,DIRL,DUCE,DUCI,DUEL,DULE,DURE,ECRU,EILD,ERIC,ICED,ICER,IDLE,IRED,IRID,IURE,LEIR,LEUD,LICE,LIED,LIER,LIEU,LIRE,LIRI,LUCE,LUDE,LURE,RICE,RIDE,RIEL,RILE,RUDE,RUDI,RUED,RULE,URDE,URIC,

3-letter words (33 found)

CEL,CID,CRU,CUD,CUE,CUR,DEI,DEL,DIE,DUE,DUI,ECU,ELD,ICE,IDE,IRE,LED,LEI,LEU,LID,LIE,LUD,LUR,REC,RED,REI,RID,RUC,RUD,RUE,ULE,URD,URE,

2-letter words (9 found)

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

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 133 words from ridicule according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ridicule

ridicule

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/
  • Hyphenation: rid‧i‧cule

Etymology 1

The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).

The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.

The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.

Verb

ridicule (third-person singular simple present ridicules, present participle ridiculing, simple past and past participle ridiculed)

  1. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
Synonyms
  • outlaugh
Translations

Noun

ridicule (countable and uncountable, plural ridicules)

  1. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
  2. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
  3. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:ridicule
Derived terms
  • ridicule pole
Related terms
  • deride
  • derision
  • ridiculable
  • ridiculous
  • ridiculosity
Translations
See also
  • humiliation

Adjective

ridicule (comparative more ridicule, superlative most ridicule)

  1. (obsolete) ridiculous
    • late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives
      This action […] became so ridicule.

Etymology 2

From French ridicule, probably jocular alteration of réticule.

Noun

ridicule (plural ridicules)

  1. (now historical) A small woman's handbag; a reticule. [from 18th c.]

References

Further reading

  • “ridicule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “ridicule”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rīdiculus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁi.di.kyl/

Adjective

ridicule (plural ridicules)

  1. ridiculous (all meanings)

Derived terms

  • ridiculiser
  • ridiculement

Related terms

  • rire
  • risible

Noun

ridicule m (uncountable)

  1. ridicule; absurd
    Near-synonym: absurde
    tourner en ridicule ― to ridicule, to mock
    le ridicule ne tue pas ― looking stupid never killed anyone

Further reading

  • “ridicule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From rīdiculus (“laughable; ridiculous”), from rīdeō (“to laugh; mock”).

Adverb

rīdiculē (comparative rīdiculius, superlative rīdiculissimē)

  1. laughably, amusingly
  2. absurdly, ridiculously

Synonyms

  • perrīdiculē

References

  • “ridicule”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ridicule”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ridicule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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