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10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
originFrom inter- + loper (“runner, rover”), as in landloper (“vagrant”) (from lope (“to leap, to jump”) (originally dialectal)). Originally spelt enterloper and used in specific sense, “unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies”, later general sense of “self-interested intruder” from 1630s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- interlope 11
- repletion 11
- terpineol 11
- leporine 10
- petronel 10
- portiere 10
- portlier 10
- terpinol 10
- inepter 9
- penlite 9
- pereion 9
- perlite 9