r 1 i 1 v 4 a 1 l 1
5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the contestant you hope to defeat
verb be equal to in quality or ability
verb be the rival of, be in competition with
originLearned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0