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9 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a state of inactivity or disuse
originFrom Late Middle English desuetude, dissuetude (“discontinuance of a practice, disuse”), from Middle French désuétude (“obsolescence”) (modern French désuétude), from Latin dēsuētūdo (“discontinuance of a practice or a habit, disuse”), from dēsuētus + -tūdō (“suffix forming abstract nouns indicating conditions or states”). Dēsuētus is the perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō (“to make…
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Words from these letters
- deseed 8
- dueted 8
- dusted 8
- seeded 8
- sueded 8
- etudes 7
- deeds 7
- dudes 7
- deets 6
- duets 6
- etude 6
- steed 6