p 3 i 1 t 1 f 4 a 1 l 1 l 1
7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
noun a trap in the form of a concealed hole
originFirst recorded use in the 14th century from pit + fall in the sense of "pit trap, pit snare", from Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pōl-. Cognate with German Falle (“trap, snare”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0