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7 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
originBorrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”), ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “multicolored, speckled”) (akin to Old High German haitar (“bright”) > German heiter; Old Norse heiðr (“bright”)) + Sanskrit काय (kāya, “body”), thus “having a spotted body”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- chetah 14
- cheth 13
- hatch 13
- hech 12
- thecae 11
- heath 11
- cheat 10
- tache 10
- teach 10
- theca 10
- hath 10
- heth 10