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Definition: Scramble |
ScrambleNoun1. An unceremonious and disorganized struggle. 2. Rushing about hastily in an undignified way. Verb1. To move hurriedly: "The friend scrambled after them.". 2. Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling. 3. Bring into random order. 4. Stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; beat the cream". 5. Make unintelligible; "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scramble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Scramble \Scram"ble\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Scrambled; Scrambling.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Military | An order directing takeoff of aircraft as quickly as possible, usually followed by mission instructions. (references) |
Military & Defense | An order directing take-off of aircraft as quickly as possible, usually followed by mission instructions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ScrambleSynonyms: scamper (n), scuffle (n), scurry (n), beat (v), clamber (v), jumble (v), shin (v), shinny (v), skin (v), sputter (v), struggle (v), throw together (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unscramble (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ascent | Climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights. |
Contention | Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel). |
Shindy; fracas; (discord); clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment; velitation; colluctation, luctation; brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting. | |
Difficulty | Nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble. |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
Haste | Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express. |
Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter. | |
Pursuit | Noun: pursuit; pursuing; Verb: prosecution; pursuance; enterprise; (undertaking); business; adventure; (essay); quest; (search); scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt. |
Taking | Clutch, swoop, wrench; grip; (retention); haul, take, catch; scramble. |
Appropriate, expropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scramble |
| English words defined with "scramble": Scamble, Scraffle, Scrambling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scramble": Fish in Troubled Water ♦ initialisation word, initialization word ♦ Ram Feast ♦ Skimble-Skamble, SNAP DRAGON. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I can't fire him. I can't scramble his whole command over night (In Harm's Way; writing credit: James Bassett; Wendell Mayes) They took a sharp, red hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about a bit, and then rip it all out through your nostrils (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scramble (1969) An Egg Scramble (1950) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Loco Foco scramble for collectors licenses. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The social scramble. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crowds surround the giant pig of "fortune/wealth" while a few people scramble over boulders to reach temple of fame] / Winsor McCay. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | There was a wild scramble for places on the ship. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Firehouse scene showing firemen pulling a hand-drawn fire engine as other firemen scramble to readiness. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Content providers scramble to form vendor-alliances, which promise to give their content sites premier or pre-loaded status on WAP phones. (references) | |
Economic History | China | Mao's death in September 1976 removed a towering figure from Chinese politics and set off a scramble for succession. (references) |
China | The cable TV headend & network equipment include: modulators, combiners, audio balance converters, end-user boxes, trunk amplifiers, power supply, distribution amplifiers, scramble & descramble systems, optical receivers, fiber splitters, fiber amplifiers, demodulators, consoles, AV splitters, logo generators, channel inserters, line amplifiers, power inserters, splitters, billing software, optical splitters, optical cables, fiber phones, mixers, TV text readers, amplifiers, equalizers, fiber connectors, cables, fiber adapters, filters, AV processors, switcher, source graphic generators, computer management systems, attenuators, broadband amplifiers, channel selectors and optical transmitters. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Scramble" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.78% of the time. "Scramble" is used about 346 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 55.78% | 193 | 22,089 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 32.66% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.27% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 346 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scramble": a scramble for seats ♦ scramble for ♦ scramble for a living ♦ scramble for smth. ♦ scramble into one's clothes ♦ scramble out ♦ scramble to get ♦ scramble to one's feet ♦ scramble together ♦ scramble up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scramble": scramble-able. | |
Containing "scramble": grab-and-scramble meal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "scramble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrihem, rrahje (affray, beating, clap, fighting, flap, hiding, lacing, leathering, licking, mix in, Pat, percussion, pulse, quiver, stroke, throb, toweling), përleshje (conflict, dustup, fight, fighting, fray, melee, mix in, mix up, scrimmage, scrum, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle), ngjitem (adhere, ascend, climb, climb up, cling, come up, go up, knit, Mount, ride, scale, stick together, swarm up), kacavirrem (clamber, climb, climb up, cling, creep, shin). (various references) | |
Arabic | مزج البيض, تسلق (ascent, climb, creep, get over, get up, mount, mounting, ramble, scale, scaling, surmount, swarm, swarm up), تزاحم (jostle), تعرش (creeping, ramble), زحمة (obstruction, press, squash, squeeze, throng), زحف (crawl, crawl on all fours, crawling, creep, creeping, draggle, grovel, march, trail), خلط البيض, خلط (admix, alloy, blending, confusion, jumble, metis, mingle, mix, mix up, mixing, mixture, shuffle), إندفع (bicker, break out, dash, fling, flush, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, stampede, stream, surge, swarm, tumble, urge, zip), إندفاع (break, burst, dash, dive, drift, fling, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, lunge, onrush, prod, raciness, rush, surge, tear), شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, smudge, unhinge, unsettle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), катеря се (climb, scrabble, shin, shinny), катерене (climb, scrabble), натискам се (neck, press), надпревара (rivalry), лазя (creep), лазене (crawl), бързо излитане, боря се (antagonize, contend, fight, grapple, militate, reluct, struggle, tussle, wrestle), боричкане (scuffle), правя как да е, движа се бързо и тревожно, давам заповед за бързо излитане. (various references) | |
Chinese | 爬行 (Crawl, Crawled, Crawling, Creeping, creeps, Crept, scrambled). (various references) | |
Czech | shon (bustle, circus, clutter, hustle, race, rush), zašifrovat (encipher, encode), rychle vzletìt po poplachu, namáhavé šplhání, motokros, frmol, drápat se, dát rozkaz k vzlétnutí, škrabání se nahoru, škrábat se. (various references) | |
Danish | øjeblikkelig start. (various references) | |
Farsi | کوشش (Assay, Attempt, Bustle, Effort, Endeavor, Fist, Labor, Muss, Strain, Stretch, Trial, Try, Tug), تلاش (Effort, Endeavor, Muss, Prowl, Quest), تقلاکردن (Agonize, Attempt, Heave, Labor, Slog, Struggle, Tug, Wrestle), تقلا (Agony, Bout, Bustle, Effort, Exertion, Muss, Scrabble, Slog, Strain, Stress, Strife, Tug, Wrestle), بزحمت جلورفتن , بادست وپابالارفتن (Clamber). (various references) | |
Finnish | kompuroida (crawl), kavuta (clamber, climb, climb a tree). (various references) | |
French | se ruer, se bousculer, ruée, mélanger, kiosque, gymkhana, grimper, grimpée, décollage immédiat, curée, coder, brouillons, brouillez, brouiller, brouillent. (various references) | |
German | verschlüsseln (cipher, code, codify, encipher, encode, to cipher, to encipher, to encode, to encrypt), klettern (clamber, climb, climbing, creep, creep up, ramble, rock climbing, shinny, spiral, to clamber, to climb). (various references) | |
Greek | σκαρφαλώνω (clamber, climb, shin up, swarm). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערבב (blend, confuse, jumble, mess, mingle, mix, muddle, stir, temper), ל"תק"ם ב"רך "קש", לטפס בקושי, לטפס בזחיל". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tülekedés (general rush, rush, scuffle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perebutan (usurpation), mengaduk (beat, interfere, stir up). (various references) | |
Italian | strapazzare (ill treat, mistreat, pull about, take no care, tire oneself out), interferire (butt in, interfere, interpose, meddle), fare motocross, corsa (journey, race, racing, ride, run, running, rush, sprint, stroke, trip), arrampicata (climb, climbing), arrampicarsi (clamber, climb, climbing, scale, shin, trail), affrettarsi (go, go fast, hasten, hie, hurry, hurry up, hustle, rush, scurry, speed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 緊急発進 (scrambling), 取り合い (struggle), 奪い合い , スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | き"きゅうはっし" (scrambling), うばいあい, スクランブル , とりあい (struggle). (various references) | |
Korean | 스크램". (various references) | |
Manx | skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, leakage, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, run out, scatter, scattering, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfix, unfurl, unfurling), jannoo mestey vestey jeh, bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amblescray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | subir (accrue, advance, ascend, aspire, climb, come up, go up, heighten, improve, increase, mount, puff, rise, scale, steepen, up, uprise), subida (advance, ascension, ascent, climb, climbing, heatspot, raise, rise, rising, soaring, uprise, upswing), trepar (climb, mount, screw, swarm), passeio (causeway, causey, crosswalk, footpath, footway, jaunt, mall, out, outing, pavement, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, roam, run, saunter, sidewalk, stroll, tour, trip, tripping, walk, walkway, wandering), mexer ovos, lutar por, disputar vivamente, contenda (bicker, contention, controversy, dispute, duel, feud, quarrel, row, scrimmage, squabble, strife, struggle, tussle), competição renhida, atropelo (bustle, hustle, trampling, whirl), arrastar-se (crawl, creep, drag, draggle, grovel, plod, slither, traipse, trudge). (various references) | |
Romanian | se lupta (combat, contend, exchange blows, fight, grapple, struggle), se agãţa (catch, hang, have, ramble), da din coate, bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), ascensiune grea, încãierare (brush, fray, grapple, melee, rough and tumble, rout, row, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle, wrestle). (various references) | |
Russian | схватка (bout, grapple, run across, run-in, skirmish), свалка (dumping ground, dumpster, dust-hole, junk yard, laystall, melee, rough and tumble, scrap heap, scrapheap, scrapyard), смешивать;бросаться свалка, сделать яичницу-болтунью, карабкаться (clamber, shin, shinned, shinning, shinny, swarm up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | verati se (clamber, climb, climb up), poletanje na znak uzbune, otimati se (vie), na brzinu staviti, koprcanje (wiggle-waggle), jagmiti se, jagma (demand), izokrenuti (invert, wring out), žurba (bustle, bustling, haste, hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, swiftness), šifrovati (code, codify, encipher). (various references) | |
Spanish | trepar arrastrándose, revolverse a, perturbar (agitate, bewilder, distract, disturb, faze, mess up, perturb, throw out, upset), pelearse (brawl, broil, clash, fall out, scrap, set to, tussle), mezclar (admix, blend, commingle, concoct, intermix, jumble, lump together, mash, medley, mingle, mix, mix up, puddle), lucha (battle, contestation, cut, death-feud, fight, fighting, fray, grapple, scuffle, set to, strife, struggle, tug of war, tussle, wrestling), cifrar (cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encode, pin on), carrera de motos, camino difícil, arrebatiña (grab). (various references) | |
Swedish | rusning (bolt, dash, racing, run, rush, sprint, stampede), klättra (clamber, climb, trail). (various references) | |
Thai | แย่งชิง (rapacious, spoil), ส่งสัญญา"รบกวน, ทำอย่างรีบเร่ง, การแย่งชิง (spoil), การปีน (ascent), รวมสิ่งต่างๆ เข้า"้วยกัน, ปีน (ascend, climb). (various references) | |
Turkish | sürünerek ilerlemek (creep, slither), yağda pişirmek, tırmanış (climb, climbing, clinging), motokros yarışı, mücâdele vermek (campaign), mücâdele (battle, campaign, combat, contest, fight, fighting, fray, hassle, race, struggle, tug, tug of war, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), güçlükle ilerlemek (plough, plough through, plow through), güçlükle ilerleme, acele havalanma, çabalamak (endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, go after, go for, hump oneself, strain, strain at, strive, struggle, study, tug, work), çabalama (conation, effort, struggle), çırpmak (beat, beat up, churn, clap, cream, fold, mill, shake, shake up, stir up, whip, whip up, whisk). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сутичка (affair, affront, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), улаштовувати сутичку, через силу зробити, швидко злітати, видирання (clamber), зліт за тривогою, продиратися. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự to i, sự bò. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymgiprys, ciprys. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scramble": scrambled, scrambler, scramblers, scrambles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "scramble": descramble, unscramble. (additional references) | |
Words containing "scramble": descrambled, descrambler, descramblers, descrambles, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscramblers, unscrambles. (additional references) | |
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"Scramble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scamle, Schauble, scrable, scrambly, scrumble, sramble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scramble" (pronounced skra"mbul) |
| 8 | s k r a" m b u l | unscramble. |
| 6 | -r a" m b u l | bramble, ramble. |
| 5 | -a" m b u l | amble, gamble, preamble, shamble. |
| 4 | -m b u l | assemble, Bumble, crumble, cymbal, disassemble, dissemble, ensemble, fumble, grumble, humble, stumble, symbol, jumble, mumble, nimble, reassemble, resemble, rumble, thimble, tremble, tumble, umbel, wamble. |
| 3 | -b u l | incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, able, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, babble, Babel, bankable, bauble, bearable, believable, bible, billable, biodegradable, breakable, bubble, buildable, burnable, cable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, cobble, coble, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, corbel, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, culpable, curable, dabble, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, Dibble, digestible, disable, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, double, Drabble, dribble, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enable, enfeeble, enforceable, enjoyable, ennoble, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fable, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, feeble, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, foible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gable, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, gullible, habitable, hardscrabble, harvestable, herbal, heritable, hobble, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, identifiable, ignoble, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immeasurable, immiscible, immobile, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, soluble, solvable, spendable, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, table, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intertribal, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, kibble, knowledgeable, label, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, libel, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marble, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, mislabel, mobile, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, nibble, noble, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, nonverbal, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, pebble, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, psychobabble, punishable, questionable, quibble, quotable, rabble, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, rebel, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redouble, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, relabel, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, sable, salable, saleable, salvageable, Scrabble, scribble, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, Sibyl, sizable, sizeable, sociable, timetable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, treble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tunable, turntable, typeable, unable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unserviceable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, valuable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verbal, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, wobble, workable. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: clambers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: amblers, becalms, blamers, cambers, clamber, crambes, lambers, marbles, marcels, rambles. | |
-2 letters: ambers, ambler, ambles, balers, becalm, blamer, blames, blares, blears, braces, breams, cabers, cables, calmer, camber, camels, carles, clears, crambe, creams, embars, lacers, lamber, macers, macles, marble, marcel, mescal, ramble, realms, scaler, sclera, scream. | |
-3 letters: abler, ables, acerb, acmes, acres, alecs, almes, amber. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: beclamors, cymbalers, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles. | |
+2 letters: cablegrams, clamberers, descramble, scramblers, unscramble. | |
+3 letters: descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, lumberjacks, meroblastic, resemblance, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles. | |
+4 letters: bachelordoms, bicameralism, blackmailers, candelabrums, chamberlains, descramblers, descrambling, elasmobranch, problematics, resemblances, unscramblers. | |
+5 letters: bicameralisms, commensurable, commensurably, discriminable, elasmobranchs, microbalances, republicanism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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