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10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)
noun the office of prefect
originBorrowed from Middle French préfecture, from Latin praefectūra. Equivalent to prefect + -ure. As an East Asian administrative division, a calque of Chinese 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn), also used to describe 縣 /县 (xian, “county”) and 州 (zhou, “province”) in some eras.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- perfecter 16
- perfect 14
- prefect 14
- preerect 12
- creeper 11
- precure 11
- prefer 11
- refect 11
- refuter 10
- precut 10
- recept 10
- cruft 10