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scabble

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
scab-ble
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To roughly dress stone.

Etymology

From Middle English scaplen, from Old French escapler (“to dress timber”), from es- (“off”) (from Latin ex-) + capler (“to cut”) (from Vulgar Latin *capulre, *cappulre).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: scaplen, escapler, ex-

Inflected Forms

scabbles (present, singular) scabbling (participle, present) scabbled (participle, past) scabbled (past) scapple (alternative) scrapple (alternative)

Derived Forms

scabbler

Questions

What does scabble mean?
To roughly dress stone.
Where does scabble come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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