Unscramble

a 1 p 3 o 1 s 1 t 1 r 1 o 1 p 3 h 4 e 1

10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun address to an absent or imaginary person

noun the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

originFrom French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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