g 2 h 4 a 1 s 1 t 1 l 1 y 4
7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
adjective gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
originFrom a conflation of gastly, from Middle English gastly, from gasten (from Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”)) + -ly, and ghostly (which was also spelt gastlich in Middle English). Equivalent to ghast/gast + -ly. Spelling with gh developed in the 16th century due to the conflation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- gashly 13
- hasty 11
- hylas 11
- lathy 11
- shaly 11
- ashy 10
- hays 10
- hyla 10
- shay 10
- yahs 10
- gaths 9
- ghast 9