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12 letters · 24 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun bread made of coarse rye flour
originFrom Westphalian German Pumpernickel, from Pumper (“fart”) (or a related form, such as pumpern) and Nickel (“rascal”) (from the male name Nikolaus (“Nicholas”)), possibly originating as an insult for a person or for the bread itself by outsiders. A false folk etymology claims that this comes from the phrase pain pour Nicole ("bread for Nicole"), referring to Napoleon disliking the taste so much…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- pumplike 18
- pumpkin 17
- leukemic 16
- penuckle 16
- pickerel 16
- pluckier 16
- pickup 16
- pimpernel 15
- cuplike 15
- kempier 15
- mickler 15
- muckier 15