Marbles
7 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
A traditional children's game in which small glass or stone balls are rolled or flicked across the ground to knock opponents' balls out of a drawn circle.
“The boys challenged each other to a game of marbles in the school playground during the afternoon break.”
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mar·bles
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Wordle
Starts with MAR and ends in -BLES, all very common letters with no tricky tile combinations
Scrabble
Worth 11 points, the B adds value and the S hook extends the root word MARBLE easily
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