p 3 a 1 r 1 v 4 e 1 n 1 u 1 e 1
8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
adjective of or characteristic of a parvenu
originBorrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (“to arrive”), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (“through”) + venire (“to come”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- parvenu 12
- pareve 11
- prevue 11
- repave 11
- parve 10
- paven 10
- paver 10
- preve 10
- avenue 9
- pave 9
- perv 9
- veep 9