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8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun women's underwear and nightclothes
originBorrowed from French lingerie (“linen closet”). The irregular pronunciation is a hyperforeignism; it may derive from the frequent shift of /ɛ̃/ (which is this word's first vowel in standard French) toward /ɑ̃/ or [æ̃] in European French, which also tends to be drifted towards /ɔ̃/.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- leering 8
- lingier 8
- reeling 8
- girlie 7
- lieger 7
- linger 7
- riling 7
- inlier 6
- lierne 6
- linier 6
- reline 6
- eigne 6