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means To scratch, scrape, or grope about frantically with the hands, often to gather or hold onto something — and, capitalized, the trademarked tile-laying word game.
from From Dutch or a Low German cousin, schrabbelen, a frequentative of schrabben 'to scratch' — so at its root it means clawing repeatedly at something, the way fingers paw through a bag of tiles. The game took its name in the mid-20th century, christened by its American developer after earlier prototypes; the word neatly captures the scrabbling of hands over a board.
- invented
- by jobless architect during Great Depression
- letter value
- counted by analyzing newspaper front pages
- top word
- oxyphenbutazone scores a theoretical 1,778
- q without u
- qi, qat, and qoph are all legal
- tile count
- exactly 100, including two blanks
scrabble world championship — annual tournament won by nigel richards (usa) 4 times, most recently 2018
collins scrabble words — official dictionary used in uk and international play, 279,496 words in 2019 edition
mo katzel — all-time highest naspa rating holder at 2213, achieved in 2020