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bubble

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Is bubble a Scrabble word?

Yes, bubble is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of bubble?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.broadly

2. (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.Examples: "Then a soldier […] / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth"figuratively

3. (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.Examples: "real estate bubble"; "dot-com bubble"; "Thanks to the proliferation of semiconductor chips and cell phones—the number of U.S. cell phones grew from essentially zero in 1983 to nearly two hundred million by the end of 2004, and as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity."

4. (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed.Examples: "Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson."; "He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s."; "Citizens of all political persuasions (not to mention members of the Trump administration) can increasingly live in their own news media bubbles, consuming only views similar to their own."Synonyms: circumstances, ambiencefiguratively

5. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.Examples: "Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble."; "For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man."obsolete

6. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.Examples: "Are you having a bubble?!"Synonyms: giraffe, bubble bathCockneyslang

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).Examples: "The laminate is bubbling."intransitive

2. (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.Examples: "Rage bubbled inside him."; "The blood bubbled up to her brain, and made such a sound there, as of boiling waters, that she did not hear the words which Mr. Bradshaw first spoke […]"; "With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind."figurativelyintransitive

3. (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.Examples: "The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]"figurativelyintransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To cover or spread with bubblesobsoleteraretransitive

5. (transitive, archaic, rare) To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.Examples: "No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]"; "He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another."; "I need not tell your Worships, that this was done with so much cunning and artifice, —that the great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here."archaicraretransitive

6. (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "bubble"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "bubble"?

Scrabble
12 points
B3
U1
B3
B3
L1
E1
Words With Friends
17 points
B4
U2
B4
B4
L2
E1

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