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10 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
noun intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
noun the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
originFrom Middle English bryghtnes, brightnesse, from Old English beorhtnes (“brightness, splendor”), from Proto-West Germanic *berhtnassī, equivalent to bright + -ness. Cognate with Old High German berahtnessī, berahtnessi (“brightness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- berthings 15
- brightens 15
- berthing 14
- brighten 14
- rightness 13
- benight 13
- brights 13
- resights 12
- sighters 12
- henbits 12
- bights 12
- bright 12