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Scrabblist

Scrabblist noun: a player of the word game Scrabble.

Noun

Scrabblist (plural Scrabblists)

  1. (rare) A player of the word game Scrabble.
    • These [wordplay] curiosities are not in themselves difficult to construct, nor does their solution provide anything much deeper than the solver's thrill, that quite minor delight that the crossword-puzzler or Scrabblist derives from his addiction.1974, Douglas Fowler, Reading Nabokov
    • I didn't even have to leave my desk to indulge in my new addiction: online Scrabble. […] I'd begun playing with accomplished Scrabblists, and soon I was ranked thirty-second among my Facebook “friends”—twenty notches lower than those who had never even played.2016, Ann Patty, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin, New York, NY: Penguin Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 99
    Synonyms:
    Scrabbler

Synonyms of Scrabblist

Forms of Scrabblist

pluralScrabblists

Origin of Scrabblist

From Scrabble + -ist.

Questions about Scrabblist

What does Scrabblist mean?
Scrabblist means a player of the word game Scrabble.
What part of speech is Scrabblist?
Scrabblist is a noun.
What is the plural of Scrabblist?
The plural of Scrabblist is Scrabblists.

Words near Scrabblist in the dictionary

  1. scrabbler
  2. scrabblers
  3. scrabbles
  4. scrabbling
  5. scrabblings
  6. Scrabblist
  7. Scrabblists
  8. scrabbly
  9. scraber
  10. scrabers
  11. scrabs

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