m 3 e 1 a 1 s 1 l 1 y 4
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective contemptibly small in amount
originFrom measle (“singular of measles”) + -y; the word measle is either from Middle Dutch masel (“a blister filled with blood; a pustule, a skin blemish”), or Middle Low German masel (“a red skin blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *masuraz (“a knot or scar in wood; a knarl”), from *mas-, *mēs- (“a spot; a sore; a scar”), from Proto-Indo-European *mos- (“a skin sore”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
- amyls 10
- lyams 10
- lymes 10
- mealy 10
- samey 10
- seamy 10
- yelms 10
- ylems 10
- ysame 10
- amyl 9
- elmy 9
- emys 9