Unscramble

h 4 a 1 i 1 l 1 s 1 t 1 o 1 n 1 e 1

9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm

originFrom Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawelston, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglastain, from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail + stone. Cognate with West Frisian heilstien (“hailstone”), Saterland Frisian Hailsteen (“hailstone”), Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Low German Hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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