rappel
rappel is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
- noun. (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- verb. lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
"The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"
"You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rappel:
Common word forms
rappels, rappeled, rappeling, rappelled, rappeller, rappelling
Words from these letters
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