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Dottles

7 lettersnounrare

Updated June 2026

Definition

Plural of dottle, the unburnt or partially burnt tobacco residues left caked inside a pipe bowl after smoking.

He tapped the dottles out of his pipe into the ashtray before refilling it for another smoke.

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Wordle

Contains double T and ends in LES, the DOTTL cluster before ES is very unusual and effectively unique in English

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Scrabble

Worth 9 points, the double T and uncommon DOTTL stem make this a challenging but satisfying Scrabble word

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