scrabbler

See also: Scrabbler

English

Etymology

scrabble +‎ -er

Noun

scrabbler (plural scrabblers)

  1. One who scrabbles.
    • 1995, Fred Pfeil, White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference, page 150:
      In Hammett's writings, the social is constructed as a vast Hobbesian landscape of grim functionaries and desperate scrabblers […]

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skʁa.ble/
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Verb

scrabbler

  1. (intransitive, Scrabble) to play a move that uses all seven tiles
  2. (intransitive) to play Scrabble

Conjugation
Conjugation of scrabbler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple scrabbler
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple scrabblant
/skʁa.blɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle scrabblé
/skʁa.ble/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present scrabble
/skʁabl/		 scrabbles
/skʁabl/		 scrabble
/skʁabl/		 scrabblons
/skʁa.blɔ̃/		 scrabblez
/skʁa.ble/		 scrabblent
/skʁabl/
imperfect scrabblais
/skʁa.blɛ/		 scrabblais
/skʁa.blɛ/		 scrabblait
/skʁa.blɛ/		 scrabblions
/skʁa.bli.jɔ̃/		 scrabbliez
/skʁa.bli.je/		 scrabblaient
/skʁa.blɛ/
past historic2 scrabblai
/skʁa.ble/		 scrabblas
/skʁa.bla/		 scrabbla
/skʁa.bla/		 scrabblâmes
/skʁa.blam/		 scrabblâtes
/skʁa.blat/		 scrabblèrent
/skʁa.blɛʁ/
future scrabblerai
/skʁa.blə.ʁe/		 scrabbleras
/skʁa.blə.ʁa/		 scrabblera
/skʁa.blə.ʁa/		 scrabblerons
/skʁa.blə.ʁɔ̃/		 scrabblerez
/skʁa.blə.ʁe/		 scrabbleront
/skʁa.blə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional scrabblerais
/skʁa.blə.ʁɛ/		 scrabblerais
/skʁa.blə.ʁɛ/		 scrabblerait
/skʁa.blə.ʁɛ/		 scrabblerions
/skʁa.blə.ʁjɔ̃/		 scrabbleriez
/skʁa.blə.ʁje/		 scrabbleraient
/skʁa.blə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present scrabble
/skʁabl/		 scrabbles
/skʁabl/		 scrabble
/skʁabl/		 scrabblions
/skʁa.bli.jɔ̃/		 scrabbliez
/skʁa.bli.je/		 scrabblent
/skʁabl/
imperfect2 scrabblasse
/skʁa.blas/		 scrabblasses
/skʁa.blas/		 scrabblât
/skʁa.bla/		 scrabblassions
/skʁa.bla.sjɔ̃/		 scrabblassiez
/skʁa.bla.sje/		 scrabblassent
/skʁa.blas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — scrabble
/skʁabl/		 — scrabblons
/skʁa.blɔ̃/		 scrabblez
/skʁa.ble/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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