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carnival

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Is carnival a Scrabble word?

Yes, carnival is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of carnival?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.Examples: "We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town."; "When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy."US

2. (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.Examples: "The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order."

3. (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.Examples: "a carnival of idiocy"figuratively

verb (English)

1. (informal, rare) To participate in a carnival.informalrare

2. (literary) To move about playfully or wildly.Examples: "The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi."; "Sitting in the Chevy, Saturday night on Main Street carnivaling around her, she told herself that she understood, that Ross had made a mistake, had pre-arranged this celebration for tonight and thought that his date with her was tomorrow."; "A sudden bright white flash exploded before me. A kaleidoscope of silver lines drawn in rapid succession carnivalled in a blizzard of raging energy."literary

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "carnival"?

Scrabble
13 points
C3
A1
R1
N1
I1
V4
A1
L1
Words With Friends
17 points
C4
A1
R1
N2
I1
V4
A1
L2

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