stridulate

Verb

make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
- "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate"
To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.

Origin / Etymology

Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))

Synonyms

clitter, chirp, chirr

Scrabble Score: 11

stridulate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stridulate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stridulate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

stridulate: valid Words With Friends Word