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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
originThe verb is probably borrowed from Italian scappare (“to run away, escape, flee”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + cappa (“(Late Latin) cape, cloak (usually with a hood); (Medieval Latin) cap; headwear”) (further etymology uncertain, probably ultimately from caput (“head”), from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”)) + -āre (the…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- capers 10
- carper 10
- crapes 10
- escarp 10
- pacers 10
- parsec 10
- recaps 10
- scrape 10
- secpar 10
- spacer 10
- caper 9
- capes 9