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8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever)
originLearned borrowing from New Latin petechia, from Italian petecchie (“skin eruptions”, plural), probably from a popular Latin diminutive of petigo (“scab, eruption”) (from impetīgo).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- aphetic 14
- cheapie 14
- hepatic 14
- tepache 14
- haptic 13
- hepcat 13
- pathic 13
- phatic 13
- chape 12
- chapt 12
- cheap 12
- cheep 12