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9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a standard or typical example
originFrom French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- topotype 15
- popery 13
- pyrope 13
- yopper 13
- pottery 12
- poopy 12
- toppy 12
- poetry 11
- pretty 11
- ptooey 11
- typp 11
- pooper 10