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Is scrawl a Scrabble word?

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

S1C3R1A1W4L1

Is scrawl a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1C3R1A1W4L1

Is scrawl a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word scrawl is a Words With Friends word. The word scrawl is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1C4R1A1W4L2

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6-letter words (2 found)

CRAWLS,SCRAWL,

5-letter words (5 found)

CARLS,CLAWS,CRAWL,CRAWS,SCRAW,

4-letter words (16 found)

ARCS,AWLS,CALS,CARL,CARS,CAWS,CLAW,CRAW,LACS,LARS,LAWS,RAWS,SCAR,SCAW,SLAW,WARS,

3-letter words (19 found)

ALS,ARC,ARS,AWL,CAL,CAR,CAW,LAC,LAR,LAS,LAW,RAS,RAW,SAC,SAL,SAR,SAW,WAR,WAS,

2-letter words (5 found)

AL,AR,AS,AW,LA,

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

Definitions and meaning of scrawl

scrawl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɹɔːl/
    • (cot-caught merger) IPA(key): /skɹɑːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).

Alternatively, from scrall, a contraction of scrabble.

Noun

scrawl (countable and uncountable, plural scrawls)

  1. Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
  2. A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
  3. Writing that lacks literary merit.
  4. (countable, uncommon) A broken branch of a tree.
  5. (uncommon) The young of the dog-crab.
Translations

Verb

scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)

  1. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
  2. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
  3. (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
    • c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost
Derived terms
  • scrawl out
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English scraulen (“to crawl”), itself an alteration of crawlen (“to crawl”). More at crawl.

Verb

scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)

  1. To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.
    • November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford:
      we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get
    • 1797 (original possibly 1783), Josiah Relph, Poems by the Reverend Josiah Relph ... With the life of the author and a pastoral elegy on his death; by T. Sanderson, page 13:
      When I saw him scrawlen on the plain, My heart aw flacker'd for't, I was sae fain.
    • 1892, Clarke Tum Fowt Sketches, page 40, no. 3:
      T'poor pig what had just scrawled through t'bottom o' t'cart,

References

“scrawl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • crawls

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