m 3 a 1 d 2 e 1 l 1 e 1 i 1 n 1 e 1
9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originUnadapted borrowing from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious. In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- leadmen 10
- limeade 10
- aidmen 9
- amende 9
- daimen 9
- delime 9
- demain 9
- demean 9
- demine 9