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9 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
originFrom French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- chancery 18
- chancy 16
- chancier 15
- chicaner 15
- hyaenic 15
- yecch 15
- chancer 14
- chancre 14
- chicane 14
- hyenic 14
- chance 13
- chicer 13