rattling

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8

Definition of rattling

5 senses · 3 parts of speech

adj

  1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).
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adj

  1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).
  2. (dated, emphatic, intensifier)good, fine.
    “a rattling good lunch”
    ““[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]””
    “To say the truth, Sophia, when very young, discerned that Tom, though an idle, thoughtless, rattling rascal, was nobody's enemy but his own […]”
    “'I'd like nothing better this minute,' said Mr Browne stoutly, 'than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.'”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rattle

noun

  1. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of ratline.

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Words you can make from rattling

135 playable · top: RATTING (8 pts)

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7-letter words

1 word

6-letter words

7 words

5-letter words

24 words

4-letter words

51 words

3-letter words

37 words

2-letter words

14 words

Hooks

3 extensions · 2 front · 1 back

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