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Riddles

Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:10 pts7 letters
Definition of Riddles

noun

  1. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

    "Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"

  2. An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

verb

  1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  2. To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

    "Riddle me this."

noun

  1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  2. A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

verb

  1. To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.

    "You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road."

  2. To fill with holes like a riddle.

    "The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets."

  3. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

    "Your argument is riddled with errors."

noun

  1. A curtain; bed-curtain
  2. One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south

verb

  1. To plait
Anagrams of Riddles

1 word can be made by rearranging all the letters of "riddles":

dreidls

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "riddles" and rearranging:

+ddiddlers
+edreidels
+ffiddlers
+ggriddles
+mmiddlers
+ppiddlers
+rriddlers
+ttiddlers
Related Word Patterns
RI...Words starting with "ri"...ESWords ending with "es"All 7-letter wordsUnscramble "riddles"
Synonyms & Antonyms
Letter Values
r1
i1
d2
d2
l1
e1
s1

Total: 9 Scrabble points

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Rhymes With Riddles
aardwolvesabacusesabalonesabamperesabasesabashesabatesabatisesabattisesabbaciesabbesabbesses
Related 7-Letter Words
rabatosrabbetsrabbiesrabbinsrabbitsrabbityrabbledrabblerrabblesrabbonirabidlyraccoonracemedracemesracemic

Word Validity & Sources

SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024

Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.

About the Word "Riddles"

Riddles is a 7-letter word that scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "riddles" can be rearranged to form 1 other valid word.

Using "Riddles" in Word Games

When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "riddles" is a low-scoring word.