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8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
originMorphologically fore- + word. Calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio (“preface”). Cognate with German Low German Vörwoord (“foreword”), Dutch voorwoord (“foreword”), West Frisian foarwurd (“foreword”), Danish forord (“preface; proviso”), Swedish förord (“foreword”). Compare also Old English forword, foreword (“proviso; condition”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- woofed 13
- woofer 12
- dowf 11
- doofer 10
- foredo 10
- reword 10
- roofed 10
- frow 10
- woof 10
- reroof 9
- roofer 9
- dower 9