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8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
originBorrowed from Latin plēctrum, from Ancient Greek πλῆκτρον (plêktron, “anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point”), from πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike, to smite, to sting”). Displaced native Old English sleġel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- crumpet 13
- crumple 13
- clump 11
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- lumper 10
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- rectum 10
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- rumple 10
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