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11 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective pleasing to the ear
originFrom Middle English mellifluous, mellyfluous, from Latin mellifluus (“flowing like honey”) + -ous, from mel (“honey”) + fluō (“flow”). Compare superfluous and fluid, from same root, and with dulcet (“sweet speech”), alternative Latinate term with a similar meaning.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- foliums 12
- fulsome 12
- museful 12
- flumes 11
- folium 11
- fumous 11
- fumuli 11
- follies 10
- soulful 10
- films 10
- filum 10
- flims 10