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7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originLearned borrowing from Spanish derecho (“straight”). First used by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in 1888, apparently coined to distinguish the winds from tornadoes, which rotate; compare tornado. Doublet of direct.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- cheder 12
- chored 12
- echoed 12
- ochred 12
- cheero 11
- choree 11
- cohere 11
- echoer 11
- reecho 11
- chode 11
- chord 11
- deech 11