Scribble vs. Scrabble — What's the Difference?

To write (a note, for example) hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.

To draw (a picture) hurriedly or carelessly.

To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands or paws

To write in a hurried careless way.

To move or climb with scrambling, disorderly haste

To make meaningless marks, as with a pen or pencil.

To struggle or work hard in a disorderly or desperate fashion

Careless hurried writing.

To write hastily or make disordered markings; scribble.

Meaningless marks and lines.

To make or obtain by frenetic or desperate action

(ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

To scrape or scratch (a surface)

To doodle.

To move or arrange hastily with the hands

To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

To scribble or write down hastily

To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

The act or an instance of scrabbling.

Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

A scribble; a doodle.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

(intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.

To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

(transitive) To gather hastily.

To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

(intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

(intransitive) To scribble.

Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

(transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.

Poor handwriting

A scramble.

An aimless drawing

To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.

Write down quickly without much attention to detail

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.

Write carelessly

To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.

The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.

An aimless drawing

A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game

Feel searchingly;

Write down quickly without much attention to detail