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

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Is scuttle a Scrabble UK word?

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

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7-letter words (3 found)

CUTLETS,CUTTLES,SCUTTLE,

6-letter words (5 found)

CULETS,CUTEST,CUTLET,CUTTLE,SUTTLE,

5-letter words (9 found)

CELTS,CLUES,CULET,CULTS,CUTES,LUCES,LUTES,SCUTE,TULES,

4-letter words (32 found)

CELS,CELT,CLUE,CUES,CULT,CUTE,CUTS,ECUS,ELTS,LEST,LETS,LUCE,LUES,LUST,LUTE,SCUL,SCUT,SECT,SETT,SLUE,SLUT,STET,SUET,TECS,TELS,TELT,TEST,TETS,TULE,TUTS,ULES,UTES,

3-letter words (23 found)

CEL,CUE,CUT,ECU,ELS,ELT,EST,LES,LET,LEU,SEC,SEL,SET,SUE,TEC,TEL,TES,TET,TUT,ULE,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,ES,ET,ST,TE,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 80 words from scuttle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scuttle

scuttle

Alternative forms

  • skuttle

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskʌ.təl/, [ˈskʌ.tɫ̩], [ˈskʌ.təɫ]
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈskʌ.təl/, [ˈskʌ.ɾɫ̩], [ˈskʌ.ɾəɫ]
  • Rhymes: -ʌtəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel.

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

  1. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
  2. A broad, shallow basket.
  3. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
Usage notes

The sense of "dish, platter" survives in compounds like scuttle-dish (a large dish).

Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English sċēat. More at sheet.

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

  1. A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
  2. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
Synonyms
  • (hatch that provides access to the roof): roof hatch
Translations

Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

  1. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
  2. (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
  3. (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
  4. (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
    Synonyms: destroy, wreck
    Coordinate term: scupper
Translations

Etymology 3

See scuddle.

Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

  1. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
Usage notes

The word "scuttle" carries a crab-like connotation, and is mainly used to describe panic-like movements of the legs, akin to crabs' leg movements.

Translations

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

  1. A quick pace; a short run.
Derived terms
  • scuttle fly

Further reading

  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • An historical dictionary
  • The English Dialect Dictionary
  • Scuttle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

  • cutlets, cuttles

Source: wiktionary.org