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7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name
originBorrowed from German Akronym, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end, peak”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to acro- (“high; beginning”) + -onym (“name”). Modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- cymar 12
- crayon 11
- mornay 11
- cyma 11
- macron 10
- anomy 10
- carny 10
- corny 10
- crony 10
- cyano 10
- mayor 10
- moray 10